I’ll take the over on that 22° for CON. The 5/18 record is 25°, the latest 22° is 5/11/1900, and it has also never been colder than 24° past that 5/11 date.
So I have an eastern phoebe brooding under the roof of my chicken run. I went up to check the eggs a bit ago and noticed a speckled egg mixed in that belongs to a brown headed cowbird.
What’s the protocol on that? Should I remove the egg so that the phoebes have a better chance at survival or let nature be?
I just let the clover flower for a few days and then mow it. But yeah, I like what backedge is doing. Have a section dedicated to the pollinators full of native plants and flowers that you leave untouched.