pretty birds

About an hour after I put up the new bluebird house, a handsome pair of bluebirds moved in.  They are large birds, about the size of a robin, but with brilliant blue feathers

I had seen a few orioles around the farm over the past few days, back from wintering in southern Mexico, Central America and northern South America, and I read that if you put orange halves onto trees, it will attract them.  I did, and it did.