One thing...

[tamsinwillougby]

... I've noticed about the current situation ist that I'm much more aware of little changes in my surroundings. The day before yesterday I saw my first butterfly of the year, a small tortoiseshell

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[kensmind]

That's so cool of you to notice those things. I keep looking for the first robin, which I should have seen by now, but no luck yet.

[tamsinwillougby]

Have you managed to spot it yet? I've mostly been seeing blackbirds and sparrows.

[kensmind]

No robin sightings today, but later on I hope to post a short 10 second video I took, recording a bird call that was pretty, but that I was unfamiliar with. It had a meadow lark quality, but wasn't quite the same.

[_profiterole_]

Cats! Today, I saw the small white one in my neighbours' garden. I often see him in mine. He's very cute, but I can't approach him.

[tamsinwillougby]

What a lovely visitor!

[sidleypkhermit]

I've been watching the birds. First week or two of shelter in place, there were more scavengers around, mostly crows, and even some seagulls congregating at the parking lot of the dollar store. Now I see little songbirds coming up near my porch a lot. And today this one hummingbird kept flying all over my yard and hovered in front of me and chirped at me??? I've never seen anything like it. I don't know what it wanted, but obviously my first google search upon coming back inside was 'diy hummingbird feeder'.

[tamsinwillougby]

How lovely!Has your hummingbird been back? I've mostly seen sparrows and blackbirds so far.

[sidleypkhermit]

Yes, I've seen the hummingbird a couple more times! Must be something appealing to them here. (It's not anything I'm doing, since the Easy DIY Hummingbird Feeders turned out to be, on the whole, quite complicated.)

[tamsinwillougby]

Yay, I'm glad it's stopping by even without a feeder!

[stellar_raven]

I've been taking pictures of the flowers in my yard and watching the birds in the trees outside my bedroom window.

[tamsinwillougby]

That sounds lovely! What kind of flowers do you have?

[stellar_raven]

Some daffodils, some azalea bushes, and this bush that puts on these pretty pink flowers, that I believe is a weigela.

I also had 1 yellow tulip. Last school year, one of my kiddos gave me a pot of yellow tulips for Easter. I think it had like 5 or six flowers in it. I wanted to try to save the bulbs if I could, so I read up on how to do it. I followed all the steps and was prepared to wait, because everything I read said that it's really hard to get bulbs from a potted arrangement to grow once planted in the ground, and even if they did grow it could take two years before you'd see anything.

So, I was pleased that I did have one grow this year. :D