Nothing made my husband, Tom, and me happier than spending time with our backyard birds. We didn’t like to venture too far from home because of Tom’s health problems, but we could spend hours sitting outside in the warm sun, watching the birds fly back and forth from the feeders to the old redwood tree.
One summer afternoon, we topped off the seeds and sat down to see who would arrive. Usually, we’d spot a few bluebirds at the boxes we had set up especially
