Spring has sprung at our farmhouse

It was a long winter in the workshop. We were very busy with our furniture orders, one after another. But I did have some time to build a few new birdhouses and garden beds. And as you can see they are both thriving.

I put up six new birdhouses around the pond and the garden.

This was early spring, and as you can see our root vegetables are doing well.

Our geese have come back for the past five years to nest by the pond. Here you can see the female sitting on the nest of eggs.

Most of the new nesting boxes were occupied within a few weeks of hanging them.

And once again we have a new farmhouse family.

I caught this cardinal watching a bluebird getting comfortable in her new house.

Home at last.

As I was cutting the grass I noticed this young northern flicker that must have just left the nest. I had to mow around that spot, the bird would not move out of the way and was not bothered by the noise of the tractor.