On the Bird Etiquette Instagram page, bird.etiquette, we feature Friday Fun Facts during the winter months. We post information about a bird that we have photographed along with a design we created of that bird. We thought we would post some of those fun facts here and decided to start off with the striking Baltimore Oriole, one of our most recognizable—and beloved—North American species. You can entice one to your yard by offering fruit slices or jelly. With a little luck, you'll be rewarded by a visit from arguably the most brilliantly colored songbird in North America. Baltimore Orioles got their name...
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Forcing Forsythia or Hurry Up Spring!
I am eager to greet Spring and all the signs of life that accompany it. Since patience is not my strong suit, I decided to try to move things along by forcing some Forsythia branches.
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Actually it's both! According to Merriam-Webster a tea towel is "a cloth for drying dishes". Sounds like a dish towel, right? They are both the same size and shape. However there is one difference - technically tea towels are made from linen or cotton cloth and never terry cloth. If a towel is made from terry, then it is a dish towel. Traditionally, tea towels were utilized during tea service, wrapped around tea pots to keep tea warm, as a cover for baked goods and to dry fine china. Ladies would...
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Worldwide there are over 5000 species of song birds. Unfortunately, here in North America their numbers on on the decline, mainly due to loss of habitat. Luckily, there are ways to attract song birds to your yard or garden by supplying food, shelter and a water source.
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