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| HUNGRY CHICKADEE AT THE FEEDER |
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| ROADSIDE ASPARAGUS |
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| MUSTANGS |
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| SUNSET VALLEY SUNSET |
Wednesday, 8:30 AM. 29 degrees F, up from 21 at sunrise. The wind is variable, shifting from NW to SW, moderate with stronger gusts. The sky is mostly clear and the humidity is down, at 73%. The barometer is trending down, now at 30.06".
Last evening's sunset was spectacular looking west from Sunset Valley.
The feeders have been up less than two weeks and I will soon have to buy a 50lb. bag of sunflower seeds, as the birds are making short work of what I had left over from last winter. In this cold snap they are consuming three cups of sunflower seeds a day, so I have to refill the two feeders every other day. We have the usual visitors at or under the feeders thus far: white and rosy breasted nuthatches; gold finches; purple finches; several native sparrows; chickadees; juncos; blue jays, mourning doves and the occasional downy woodpecker, which won't come around much until I put out a suet block.
Now is a good time to spot the still-green, soon-to-be-gold wild asparagus along the roadsides, for harvesting next spring.
Gossip from the orchard country: the new owner of Torbick Farms has a lot of new horses in the pastures that used to hold buffalo. I am told they are wild mustangs, brought from Montana. They are quite beautiful to watch as they run free in the fields. Hope the wolves, which I haven't heard much of recently, don't hear of them. There are reports of bobcats down in the valley to the west of the orchards.
If the President should write another book, I have a suggestion for the title; "The Audacity of Arrogance."
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