July 4

I was reading something last night about the best fireworks displays in the US. Philadelphia came out #1, with Boston third. Not too bad, we beat out NYC and Washington DC, along with a whole host of other big cities.

The baby birds are out and about in force. As I'm typing there is a baby tufted titmouse in the redbud tree chirping and hollering to be fed. The parents are still very attentive, but obviously expect the baby to start doing a little bit for himself. We must have had ten sparrow nests this year, because there are dozens of young sparrows and do they ever make a racket! Sometimes there are twenty or so of them in the redbud tree at the same time. We have one young squirrel, probably about 7-8 weeks old, who also comes to the redbud, and the young sparrows chase him from branch to branch.

The adult birds bring the babies to this tree to show them that there is food here. Two suet feeders that Dawg refilled for me the other day, along with a seed feeder. No birds starve here!

Queenee went to work this morning, but will leave by 11am. She saw Rain last night and said they put on a great show, that they really do make you feel like you are seeing The Beatles. She is going to see fireworks with the D's and Peas tonight. Anyone else have plans?