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Hi all,

It's been an interesting day out by the feeders. The wife enjoyed working from home today (yay!) and spent most of it hammering away at her laptop out on the deck. (We've been carefully watching/documenting her efficiency when she labors from en casa... Her productivity is roughly 15% higher when telecommuting compared to when she spends two hours just getting to work before she even starts her day. Great surprise there huh? Much more about this at a later time...)

So anyway, Mrs. CCA did her "computin" out on the deck - a real treat. The show was on in that there seems to be much more backyard activity lately...

• Over the last week or so, the hummingbirds have been extremely busy. (Not sure why...) Still, it's fun to watch them on the bird cam (see links below), or better yet live.
• The crows have finally accepted our company, and in doing so become far more pushy in their demand for food... Oh goody.
• Likewise, the catbirds and orioles have at last decided that we're tolerable - hence we are to provide more jelly. (Who's making up the rules around here?)
• A chipmunk jogged across the wife's toes... That doesn't happen much at the office. (At least it better not!)
• And finally, there are the rabbits... Happy, fat, dancing rabbits... I "coulda and shoulda" gotten a much better photo of at least one of these guys - he was only 5' away... (Stupid automatic focus!) Regardless, the bunny population is booming... No doubt that the already robust coyote count will respond in kind.

Let's see... What else? Well, slowly but surely, the trellis (see parts 1 and 2 in the construction process) continues to rise from the drawing board. We managed to attach one of the two arches today. (Rain, power tools, and cameras just don't seem to mix. Hmmm...) The birds simply love it... Our guess is that the structure offers a sort of protection from hawks, etc.

And so it goes... Work, birds, "waskly wabbits", and weather that just won't let us finish our trellis... There's worse...

See you by the feeders,

CapeCodAlan

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