Bonafide Farm » hawthorne http://bonafidefarm.com Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 09 Jun 2015 21:38:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 The ice storm http://bonafidefarm.com/2013/12/09/the-ice-storm/ http://bonafidefarm.com/2013/12/09/the-ice-storm/#comments Mon, 09 Dec 2013 14:40:24 +0000 Bonafide Farmer http://bonafidefarm.com/?p=4900 Well, that was the best kind of winter storm. Hyped just enough to get us all excited, but delivering only enough precipitation to make things look interesting without damaging trees or taking down the power (at least not here—others in Central Virginia weren’t so lucky). Perfect. Here are some scenes from this morning. Too bad the sun’s not out—that would have made for some beautiful photos. Instead, it’s so dark out it looks like 4:30 p.m. After three days of grey, I am definitely ready to see the sun again.

But it looks like more snow is on the way tonight and tomorrow…and this storm hasn’t been hyped at all which usually means it will amount to something!

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]]> http://bonafidefarm.com/2013/12/09/the-ice-storm/feed/ 0 Not long now http://bonafidefarm.com/2013/05/07/not-long-now/ http://bonafidefarm.com/2013/05/07/not-long-now/#comments Tue, 07 May 2013 15:55:27 +0000 Bonafide Farmer http://bonafidefarm.com/?p=3741 The bluebird nestlings were peeking out of the nest box entrance hole when I approached today. They’re fully feathered and there are at least four babies in the very crowded box. I hope I can get an accurate count to see if all five eggs made it to fledglings—a 100% success rate!—but at this stage the birds are easily spooked and I don’t want to scare any out of the box while its open.

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It won’t be too much longer until they fledge into this beautiful blooming spring outside their nest box. The tree with the white blooms is a hawthorne planted as part of the new forest installation.

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I’ll have to keep an eye on Tuck in the next few days to make sure he doesn’t encounter a fledgling in the grass.

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