Hello, and welcome to my personal blog. My name is John Spangler; I live in Versailles, Kentucky, where since June 2010 I have been growing miniature hostas in my garden, along with some of their larger siblings in deck containers. I am a member of The American Hosta Society and the Greater Cincinnati Daylily-Hosta Society and have been accredited by the AHS as a provisional hosta show judge.

In addition to observations on my own hosta garden and links to numerous hosta-related websites, this blog will include occasional posts on other interests of mine. I hope that you find something interesting and useful here and encourage you to grow hostas, the Friendship Plant -- particularly miniature hostas. Good things do come in small packages!

Feel free to leave comments on blog entries or to e-mail me at JMSinKY@aol.com

Thursday, August 18, 2011

My Backyard Bird List

This blog page, created August 18, 2011, is a continuing entry that will be updated from time to time. It was last updated on May 23, 2012.


(I wanted something very simple to blog about this morning since I have a busy day ahead, so I thought why not start a list of birds that I see in my backyard -- my computer desk is located at a window where I can see my bird feeders, bird bath, and part of the garden and deck. How is this related to miniature hostas you may well ask -- but, dear reader, as I note in the blog description, this blog also treats "various and sundry other topics." Consider this frolic in detour the first one of them!)

JOHN SPANGLER'S BACKYARD BIRD LIST
Begun August 18, 2011; last posting May 23, 2012.
Birds' names are linked to The Cornell Lab of Ornithology's All About Birds website.
Page references are to Stan Tekiela's Birds of Kentucky Field Guide (2001)
  1. American goldfinch (Carduelis tristis), 19 Aug 2011 (p. 245)
  2. American robin (Turdus migratorius), 19 Aug 2011 (p. 193)
  3. blue jay (Cyanocitta cristata), 18 Aug 2011 (p. 59)
  4. brown-headed cowbird (Molothrus ater), 23 May 2012 (pp. 5 & 99)
  5. Carolina chickadee (Parus carolinensis), 18 Aug 2011 (p. 171)
  6. common grackle (Quiscalus quiscala), 18 Aug 2011 (p. 11)
  7. downy woodpecker (Picoides pubescens), 23 May 2012 (p. 23)
  8. European starling (Sturnus vulgaris), 18 Aug 2011 (p. 7)
  9. house finch (Carpodacus mexicanus), 18 Aug 2011 (p. 71)
  10. house sparrow (Passer domesticus), 23 Aug 2011 (p. 87)
  11. house wren (Troglodytes aedon), 18 Aug 2011 (p. 79)
  12. mourning dove (Zenaida macroura), 18 Aug 2011 (p. 131)
  13. northern cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis), 18 Aug 2011 (p. 233)
  14. northern mockingbird (Mimus polyglotto), 7 Oct 2011 (p. 193)
  15. ruby-throated hummingbird (Archilochus colubris), 18 Aug 2011 (p. 211)
  16. tufted titmouse (Parus bicolor), 18 Aug 2011, (p. 183)
16 species observed through 23 May 2012, 11:00 a.m. (Added brown-headed cowbird and downy woodpecker)
14 species observed through 7 October 2011, 3:00 p.m. (Added northern mockingbird)
13 species observed through 23 August 2011, 10:00 a.m. (Added house sparrow)
12 species observed through 19 August 2011, 10:05 a.m. (Added American goldfinch & American robin)
10 species observed on 18 Aug 2011 (blue jay, Carolina chickadee, common grackle, European starling, house finch, house wren, mourning dove, northern cardinal, ruby-throated hummingbird, tufted titmouse)

The Tekiela field guide contains 112 of the most common birds of Kentucky.
More than 360 species of birds have been recorded in Kentucky.
Over 800 species of birds are found in North America.

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