Apr 13 Art - Sit Spot #1681 - April 13, 2025

Sunday, April 13, 2025 9:20 a.m.

Sit 1681.  :   Brush Pile E.  :   Partly Cloudy

+4° (+4°)    W 3-4 kph          74% humidity

Red-winged Blackbirds,

Mourning Dove, 

Blue Jay,

Crows,

Red-bellied Woodpecker,

Gull Flying overhead,

Extras:

(11:00 p.m.) -| Bright moonlight,

12:30 a.m.    -| (Spring Peepers at 12:30)

3:10 a.m.      -| Quiet,

6:41 Sunrise Chorus -

Flicker,

Carolina Wren,

Robins,

Cardinal,

Red-winged Blackbirds,

Mourning Dove, 

Crows,

Woodpecker drumming,

Morning Activities -

Made crêpes for breakfast,

2 km Trail walk with Marigold, 

Filled sled 4 times with sticks and branches,

Afternoon Activities -

Filled sled 3 times with sticks, branches, and

    tall grass stems,

(Thought I had all the sticks up from west lawn

   but found more when we went out with the

   dog after supper),

All the sticks and grasses were burned in the 

   burn bin,

Found a snake hibernaculum with garter snakes,

Fleur-Ange spent an hour with her camera there,

Blooms found today:

Fleur-Ange found 1st Bloodroots,

We both found 1st Spring Beauties,

Scilla continue to bloom

Hairy Bittercress continue to bloom,

Found Red Elderberry leaves opening,

Saw a Cabbage White Butterfly on some Scilla,

1 km Trail walk with Fleur-Ange & Marigold, 

Towhees were calling during our evening walk,

Seen or Heard from Kitchen -

Red-winged Blackbirds,

Blue Jay,

Cardinal,

Crows,

Mourning Dove, 

Flicker,

Goldfinches,

Grackles,

Juncos,

White-breasted Nuthatch,

Robins,

Turkey Vulture overhead,

Downy Woodpecker,

Hairy Woodpecker,

Red-bellied Woodpecker,

Chipmunk

Black Squirrel,

Grey Squirrel,

Red Squirrel.