Tangled Branches: Cultivated
happenings in and around my zone 6b gardens in northern Virginia and in central Virginia
Tuesday, December 02, 2003
Weather: sunny, but cold and windy today.
Chores: picked up some more sticks from the back to put out for yard debris pick-up tomorrow. Also cut down the rest of the perennials in front. Still need to do one more leaf clean-up session this year.
Nature notes: Yesterday morning, around 5:30, a rabbit and I surprised each other in the front yard. I was going out to get the paper, and it hopped away from the perennial bed. Yesterday around noon, a big flock of robins in back pretty much picked clean the holly berries from my little tree in back. Mixed in with the robins working on the berries, was a suspected cedar waxwing (first one I ever saw).
Then today, I saw a whole flock of cedar waxwings (about 10-20). About 4 pm, I noticed that the robins were back (splashing in the birdbath, among other activities), and then I noticed a group of different birds near the back of the lot. Got out the binoculars, and got a very good look at several cedar waxwings. Very elegant-looking birds. I hope they stay around a while.
This morning, while looking out the window at Capella, I saw 2 meteors just a short time apart.
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