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I took this video today. I got the arrangement yesterday because when I was at the shop I saw a bumblebee having a visit. It's an arrangement of calibrachoa: purple, yellow, and orange. The bumblebee seems to prefer the purple hands down

That's the goal for my patio garden. I see something visiting while I'm at the nursery I hope to have the same outcome at home. And it's a success!!

I've heard this before, along with other noises from crows over the years but never have been fortunate enough to be able to capture it! He also took on a very

It's hard to hear clearly; I was just chilling on my deck and grabbed my phone to record as soon as I could

I've spent a lot of time looking over videos and sites trying to discover other recorded noises that crows make besides the caw and the rapid click but haven't heard anything similar. Another noise I've heard was a very soft, sweet warbling chatter. It was incredibly charming

But hey, I was incredibly hyped to catch this. Have you heard anything similar?

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I noticed the mother bird about a week ago when there would be a bird who flew off every time I left my front door

I try hard to minimize the disturbance to her/them. I only have one door so I try to consolidate my trips out but when I do I try to get a picture of the nest

This was taken yesterday, 5.10.25 at 9.45am

This was 5.9.25 at 1.45pm

It's very exciting to me because I've never been in such close proximity to a nest before. I was sure I heard baby bird peeps earlier today and it turns out I was right!!

I've had a bird bath on my balcony consistently over the winter and have started setting out seeds for the resident birds. Every day I get a new visitor or something to marvel at! But I believe having the consistent water source was key to the gal nesting where she did

I originally got this guy in Oct of last year from a plant shop and was in pretty miserable shape:

I left it in my south facing window and it lost those leaves and then shot up a whole bunch of new ones all at once (the ones in the before/after)

I was concerned that they were growing too straight as a result of it not getting enough light. I put the plant in another window that gets direct sun earlier in the day and then I started to see the very tips start to curl

My mom had given me a plant light a couple years ago that I never used so it was the perfect opportunity to set it up in a corner of my kitchen currently unused. Over the course of just a couple days I saw some real differences! These should all be taken about 12 hours apart:

Those were all taken about 5 days ago, then here's this morning, same as the top photo:

Anyways, the photos aren't great because I didn't expect to see progress, especially none so quickly. So they're not staged well and I think I messed up the formatting because my app was giving me issues uploading more than the first two pics. Also my water just got shut off for emergency maintenance and I was already in the middle of an anxiety episode but I'm absolutely over the moon when I woke up to see those tight curls!

Those leaves grew so tall so quickly I was afraid the lack of bright light would have caused them to just be stretched and the info I found on the internet led me to believe that they were forever doomed to be frizzle fizzle until next growing season

Anyways, that's my plant and one of the joys in my life right now!