Quick update on the island goings on…. Still no herring spawn. Yesterday we saw the herring beneath the perch. A small school playing beneath us. A good sign? I hope so..

We had the two green hummingbirds all winter.. The red one returned on Friday.. March 20… mark it in our calendars…

The flicker is working on a new nest in the Arbutus tree by the wood shed.. I noticed a ton of wood shavings on the ground.. and looked up… way up… 20 feet in the air…                                                            Last year they had two babies in a nest on the same tree..

I don’t know why they needed a new nest                        

As I sat in the garden this afternoon a dark shadow appeared on the ground in front of me. Again, I looked up.. way up and saw a turkey vulture quietly circling above me… They have returned.. They used to nest in the rocks beside us but I think our dogs were to noisy for them…. I hope for my neighbours sake that they reconsider and nest nearby again…

Big shout out to our neighbour who is in all of our thoughts……

Hurry home….

The vegetable starts are all doing well. Although, I suspect E is tired of climbing over seed trays to get to his chair in the living room. He has started talking seriously about building me a greenhouse…I guess we should finish some of the ten or twelve projects we already have on the go before we

start another one