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Colorado is a wonderful place to live and spend time gardening outdoors and indoors as well as enjoying the wildlife.I will be sharing my observations and experiences with you about gardening and wildlife in this dry Colorado climate. Join me to learn, share, enjoy. An Ohio native, I moved to CO in 1981 and have been challenged to the point of total despair and frustration with gardening here---until recently. As a child I loved going to Grandma's to see her beautiful urban gardens and wander through her sunroom. Her sunroom was just off her living room surrounded by windows where she kept her wide variety of indoor flowers, cactus, and cuttings for new plants. When she played the piano near her sunroom, it embedded in my memory the beauty and love of Grandma, plants and music. My Mom was also an avid gardener, both vegetables and flowers.All nine of us children and Dad enjoyed the bounty of fresh fruit and vegetables. Mom now spends her time at an assisted living center in Ohio with my Dad and they enjoy birdwatching and the gardens kept by others. While living in Ohio, I had a large garden and would often find my two girls walking around the yard with green beans sticking out of their mouths or with a pocket full of earthworms from freshly turned earth. The love of the outdoors, wildlife and gardening are shared with my husband, grown daughters and 5 local grandchildren. In this blog,let's share the joy of gardening, wildlife and ecology in CO.

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Wrens attack squirrel

Article Contributed on: 7/3/2009 6:20:43 PM

Lunch on the patio was more exciting than usual for my husband, me and a visiting squirrel. We have had a downy woodpecker house up for 3 years in hopes of one moving into our yard. Instead, this spring a pair of tiny wrens took up residence in the downy house.

While enjoying our day off for the 4th of July, we witnessed the two wrens repeatedly chase and attack a squirrel who was trying to secure her lunch from our peanut feeder. The wrens must have felt the squirrel was a threat to their nest about 15 feet away from the feeder. Suppose we could reduce our bird seed bill by putting up another wren house or two? Amazing to think I have spent so much money on squirrel preventative devices for the bird feeders when I really needed a wren family.


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Rebecca Zimmerman wrote on 7/8/2009 @ 10:45:03 AM

I look forward to reading more from you!
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