Stormy weather was forecast for this past weekend, but it held off enough on Saturday for me to repot more than a dozen plants, including Japanese maples, some bulbs and a couple mountain ash seedlings. Buckets of rain poured down from Saturday night through Sunday night.
Birds hit the feeders hard on Saturday and pretty well cleaned them out. Lesser goldfinches, yellow-rumped warblers, pine siskins, juncos and chickadees were the most numerous, but house finches and a black phoebe made an appearance. Robins, cedar waxwings, ravens, starlings and a hermit thrush cruised by, and I heard the first white-crowned sparrow of the season this weekend.
In Japan, uguisu, bush warblers, herald the imminent arrival of spring along with ume, plum blossoms. Plum trees are blooming all over town, and now the white-crowned sparrow has returned -- our uguisu.
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