Taken with milk and sugar, though this is one of the few breakfast teas that I find palatable without. I am trying to enjoy a pot of this pure keemun this morning in spite of realizing that I haven’t heard “my” birdies today and I can’t remember hearing them yesterday.
Oh, Canada! Must you take them ALL back in the summer? The little white-throated sparrows make me smile every morning with their sweet, breathy, reedy song as they scratch the ground ’neath my feeders and toss leaves about. Their adorable little striped heads and yellow lores will be sorely missed, but their return is one of the few things I look forward to about winter. They have rescued many a low morning just by singing outside my window.
Meanwhile, my pot of English Breakfast will have to brace me for this busy day. Hmmmm. Maybe I should have made Queen Catherine. She is the most consoling and bracing!
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Our white-throated sparrows aren’t quite gone yet; we’re just on the edge of their year-round range, so they hang around for quite a while. The orioles and warblers are back now, though!
We want it all! I’ve noticed an upsurge in birds recently. Some extra birds around, pigeons mating, blue jays being adorable. There was a fun owl last time I was at my Aunt’s cabin.
Our finches have already raised one nest in our front fern and there is a new nest with four eggs. The bird bottle out back has already fledged its little sparrows, and our nuthatches, Carolina wrens, brown thrasher, and mockingbirds have all had babies! I just put in a new side bed with a third birdbath ( the other two are in the backyard ) and I am having fun watching all the splashing, plus all the dust bathing going on in the newly softened soil! This is the BEST time of year!
Our white-throated sparrows aren’t quite gone yet; we’re just on the edge of their year-round range, so they hang around for quite a while. The orioles and warblers are back now, though!
We want it all! I’ve noticed an upsurge in birds recently. Some extra birds around, pigeons mating, blue jays being adorable. There was a fun owl last time I was at my Aunt’s cabin.
Our finches have already raised one nest in our front fern and there is a new nest with four eggs. The bird bottle out back has already fledged its little sparrows, and our nuthatches, Carolina wrens, brown thrasher, and mockingbirds have all had babies! I just put in a new side bed with a third birdbath ( the other two are in the backyard ) and I am having fun watching all the splashing, plus all the dust bathing going on in the newly softened soil! This is the BEST time of year!