This Garden is for the Birds!

Sometimes, I post more about the wildlife and the birds I see than the actual garden. Today is no exception :P

To be honest my garden this year is a bit of a dud. My cucumber plant drowned..I have to remember to plant it on a mound...clearly, I wasn't thinking. My tomatoes fell over with all the rains we had and although laden with fruit, I need better stakes to keep them standing up. I did pick 2 green peppers, but the plant itself is so puny, I doubt I will get any more from it. My eggplant although has one nice fruit on it, the leaves are completely infested with little black bugs. My small lettuce planting was successful and I ate all of it...not in one sitting!..The beans and zucchini are doing quite well and are very tasty! I have quite a few spaghetti squash a-growin' but I fear that it's location is too close to the edge of the garden and they will get stolen....

So it great compensation, that the garden attracts so many birds. The goldfinches usually take off when I arrive at my garden, but always do fly-by's to see if I have left and if I sit quietly under a nearby tree, they return and I am able to take some photos, but always using the zoom, they just won't let me get too close.

Anyway, on with the bird show:

My Friend Flicker!

Here he is trying to take a dirt bath!