T Stands for Tuesday Birds

   Welcome to T where we share a drink related photo and link up with friends, with our hostess Bleubeard and Elizabeth-link in my sidebar

  Wow, roller coaster weather happening here at the lake-actually typical some years here in the Ozarks in Missouri. Last week soooo much rain again one 24 hour period we had over 2 inches of rain. We had rain most of April and it has continued into May. So of course this is a spring of flooding in the rivers and low areas. Over the weekend we got cold enough for the heat to come on, if the woodstove here would have been safe to use I would have had a fire built for sure.

  Many years when we have a cold spring with rain it will suddenly jump right into summer weather skipping right over spring-and that is exactly what it is doing here this week. Monday begins several days of 90 degrees F  and into the high 80's F for the rest of the week. Just not ready for that already

    Of course I am just soooo far behind with my yard project and the grass is very tall.  I spent a whole morning using a weed killer during a window of opportunity with no rain and warm enough temperatures but it ended up not working as a day after we got the onslaught of rains.  We ended up ordering one of those weed eaters so will see if I can learn to use it, to knock this down.

   On a positive note though-we are sooooo enjoying all of the bird visitors. I wasn't able to use my large seed feeders over the winter do to the too many squirrels so I have been tossing it on to the floor of the deck. The beautiful orioles both the Baltimore and Orchard orioles are still here, along with a handful of hummingbirds. I have three feeders out now. The orioles do not usually nest in this area so I think we have seen them here for a longer period do to the storms. We also have at least 6 pairs of the rose breasted grosbeaks-so beautiful and the first time I have seen them in person. I have admired them in bird magazine photos. It took some searching to discover that the female was a grosbeak She has the markings of a sparrow but a larger bird-so she was a mystery to us for awhile

Here is a photo we found on the internet-wow she is a grosbeak (smiles)

Here are some photos I took last week, please excuse the poor quality-I have a very old digital camera that I am still using This first photo is a grosbeak pair

we get a variety of finches here

This photo below was taken in front of the house-to the left of the steps and hill

The male goldfinch is in full color

We enjoy many of the different woodpeckers here You can see from this photo we are up close for bird watching-and for chasing off the too numerous squirrels

 For my drink share one day last week I made another margarita but used frozen blueberries and strawberries with lots of ice

 Friday I received happy mail from Elle in Scotland-I love everything-thank you so much The cadbury candy bar is missing as I broke it in half and shared with Larry Isn't the tag so beautiful? thank you so much Elle and I love those plaids

I also wanted to share that I have started Food Wednesdays a link up for sharing posts about Foods-a way to share food recipes and information about foods.

Happy T Everyone