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| Last evening just after dinner time we were alerted by our weather scanner that there was a severe thunder storm headed our way. I send in weather reports a few times a day to a local TV station, and went outside to check the sky for any ominous looking clouds. The storm did get to us, and the rain came down in sheets along with 1/2" hail, and lots of thunder. No damage, and after 15 minutes the sun returned. |
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| Click on over to http://skyley.blogspot.com and you will see a terrific weather meme. |
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| It turned out to be a rather warm day with the temps in the 80's, and that was the perfect recipe for an evening thunder storm. It only lasted about 20 minutes but we got very heavy rain, with lots of hail and a drop of 15 deg. in temp. |
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| Showing up this morning were several White-crowned sparrows. They are so cute and very fast. |
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| Yesterday I checked the blue bird house and found a partially built nest mostly of green mosses. I don't remember ever seeing a bird nest like this, but later in the morning the Tree swallows have arrived, and were checking out the house. I'm thinking maybe a mouse is in there. I'll keep a close eye on it. |
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| A couple more shots of the White-crowned sparrows. |
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| There are a few Chipping sparrows too hanging around. |
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| Now this scary guy was crawling up the wall of the garage. I'm sure this is some kind of jumping spider. |
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| Last but not least I saw literally hundreds of Red Admiral butterflies today just everyplace. I've never seen so many before. Good to get pictures. I have more shots of them, and will post more in the coming days. |
