I’m glad you are enjoying the bird app, too! I’ve used it to help me identify birds that come to our bird feeder, but I haven’t tried calling them yet. I will go do that today! 🙂

For sure. Anything that the grandkids enjoy is good, but not being messy is icing on the cake. 🙂

Thanks, Debbie. The kinetic sand does have a unique and enjoyable feel. I still like to play with play-doh now and again too. 🙂

So far my plant has handled the repotting well. Hoping it stays that way. I’ve heard that this variety usually thrives when separated but this has been my first year to get brave enough to try it with this particular plant.

Thanks, Cindy. I hope I’ll remember at least a few more months that my “values” are in that plant as I water it. 🙂

I forget the Merlin app has the photo part. I’ve yet to try that. I’ll have to do that soon. I use my regular photo app to identify plants sometimes via a picture but it’s often wrong too, so yeah, not sure how reliable these things are yet. ha. I saw the baby bird photo on your blog post – that was amazing to catch a shot mid-feed!

Birds bring both prons and cons – we have a lot of Canada geese that use our backyard as their personal bathrooms. This spring I can hardly walk outside without stepping on goose poop. I guess I have to take the good with the bad (but I wouldn’t be so happy if they were eating my growing things!). 🙂

I had to look up the Butcher Bird since I was unfamiliar with it, and you’re right–it has such a unique and beautiful song! I’ve never heard anything like it where I live. Thanks for sharing about it.

I wish I had already known about the app before our California trip in April. I imagine there would have been a few different bird sounds that I could have identified! Next time. 🙂

Oh wow, I haven’t thought of using the calls to speak to the birds. I’ll have to try that! Thanks, Lynn. You’re always spurring me on to more and better. 🙂