The pretty, little Spring Starflowers are blooming along the sides of the roads on Cape Cod. They are so pretty and delicate with their light purple color and bright yellow center.
”The foliage has an onion-like scent when crushed. The stem grows up to 20 cm (8 in) tall and bears a solitary showy flower in spring (hence the Latin name uniflorum – “single flower”). Each honey-scented, star-shaped flower has six pointed lobes up to 3 centimeters long in shades of very pale to deep purple-blue.”
This is the time of year when all of the Grackles arrive and invade our bird feeders. They come in droves, eat a lot of the bird seed and scare all the other birds away. They are relentless!
We have been using the large and small version on the Squirrel Buster bird feeders. The bird feeders close when a heavier bird lands on them. But the Grackles figured out how to eliminate that problem and ate most of the bird food.
After trying many new adaptations each year and failing, we finally modified our Squirrel-Buster bird feeder hoping this would make it Grackle-proof. It worked!
It is so much fun to watch the Grackles scavenge around on the ground looking for some leftover seed while the smaller birds are eating from the bird feeders. The Grackles don’t even try to get anything from the feeders anymore. So much fun!
