Back on "The Farm"

Well, we're back from our "long winters nap" in the Southwest and are settling in to our summer habitat here in Leelanau County Michigan. We had our contractor, Gerard Belanger do some final drywall upgrades to the farmhouse while we were gone and are very pleased with the outcome. The remodeling took three years and a lot of our cash reserves but we feel that it was worth it. We now have a comfortable home to settle into when we can no longer maintain our full-time RV lifestyle. Our twilight years, so to speak; it's hard to imagine but somewhere along the years we have evolved into a couple of old farts. It just doesn't seem that long ago that I was inviting this cute 18 year old coed out for coffee after class at Northwestern Michigan College. SIGH!
We arrived here on May 1 and Teddy has been busy every day tending her gardens and I have been busy holding down my recliner so that it doesn't fly away. ;-)
In the week and a half that we have been back we have already had quite a number of our feathered friends in or about our yard including:

Purple Finch

Goldfinch

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Mourning Dove

Black-capped Chickadee

Ring-billed Gull

Blue Jay

American Crow

Chipping Sparrow

White-crowned Sparrow

Baltimore Oriole

American Robin

Northern Cardinal

Common Grackle

Ruby-throat Hummingbird

Needless to say our cat, Nazzie is quite excited for, as you might expect, he has a consuming interest in ornithology.

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I haven't taken many photos yet but did manage to snap this shot of a Northern aka Baltimore Oriole.