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IT SUETS THEM JUST FINE

Monday Through Friday this past week, we’ve been getting warblers in our garden. Today, Saturday they and the turkeys took the day off. Yesterday:

The kinglet is not often seen in our garden. This one came to the suet block while I was working a few feet away!

954 Ratcliff Drive SE, Marion, Oregon, US
Jan 27, 2023. 23 species

Wild Turkey  21
Mourning Dove  24
Glaucous-winged Gull  2     fly over
Northern Flicker  1
Steller’s Jay  1
California Scrub-Jay  5
American Crow  5
Black-capped Chickadee  2
Chestnut-backed Chickadee  1
Bushtit  20
Red-breasted Nuthatch  1
White-breasted Nuthatch  1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
Bewick’s Wren  1
European Starling  2
Varied Thrush  1
House Finch  X
Lesser Goldfinch  X
American Goldfinch  30
Dark-eyed Junco  30
Song Sparrow  1
Yellow-rumped Warbler  1
Townsend’s Warbler  1

Click here for a look at Arizona’s inter-community water anger. A water district would make sense but the parched residents don’t want to create a new government agency. That’s how deeply embedded the U.S. anti-government superstitions have become. Better die of thirst than create more government. “Keep your government hands off my Medicaid.” Ignorance is not bliss, here, it’s self-destruction.