Beegracious Farm

03/27/2026

I know about most of these, what about you?

03/20/2026

Welcome SPRING
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03/20/2026

The equinox fired this morning. Here's what it just unlocked for the next 30 days.

WEEK 1 — MARCH 21-27:
Osprey return to nest platforms across the mid-Atlantic. Males calling. Females arriving. Check the nearest platform — they're back.

Tree Swallows commit to nest boxes. If you have a box with a 1½-inch hole, expect a metallic blue-green bird inspecting it every morning.

Woodcock sky dance hits peak intensity. Every evening at dusk. Every open field near woods. Peak week for displays.

Dawn chorus expands to 10+ species. New voices every morning.

WEEK 2 — MARCH 28-APRIL 3:
Brown Thrasher arrives in force. 1,100 songs. Doubles every phrase. You'll hear him before you see him.

Eastern Towhee: "Drink your tea." From the underbrush. Every morning. The most persistent song of April.

Barn Swallow scouts reach the mid-Atlantic. Looking for last year's mud nest under your eave.

Fox kits make their first appearance outside the den. Dawn and dusk. Twenty-one to twenty-eight days old.

WEEK 3 — APRIL 4-10:
WARBLER WAVE BEGINS. Yellow-rumped, Palm, Pine, Black-and-white. Check trees before 8 AM. Canopy still open — the visibility window.

Ruby-throated Hummingbird main wave arrives Northeast. Feeders should be up. Four parts water, one part sugar, no dye.

Baltimore Oriole scouts. Listen for a slow clear whistle unlike any bird you know. Put out orange halves.

WEEK 4 — APRIL 11-17:
Warbler peak. Fifteen to twenty species possible in a single morning at the right spot.

Canopy closing. The visibility window for warblers narrows daily. By April 20 they disappear into the leaves.

Earth Day — April 22. Everything you set up this month is the foundation.

The equinox was the trigger. The next 30 days is the response. Your yard is about to change faster than at any other point in the year.

👉Guardians of Nature👈

03/05/2026

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That low mournful coo outside your window every morning — the one that sounds like grief.

It's not grief. It's a love song.

I'm a Mourning Dove. You named me after sadness. But that sound is a male calling for a mate, or a bonded pair maintaining their connection. He's saying I'm here, I'm yours, come find me. She answers. He puffs his chest. They touch beaks.

He does this hundreds of times a day during mating season. It's the most persistent courtship call in your neighborhood.

That whistling sound when I take off — the sharp rising note you've heard a thousand times — isn't my voice. It's my wings. The outer feathers produce a high-pitched alarm on launch that tells every dove nearby to fly. You've been hearing a warning system your whole life and never knew it.

I build the worst nest in nature. A flat pile of sticks so thin you can see the eggs through it from below. Eggs fall through. Wind blows them off. And yet I can raise multiple broods per year, more than almost any other bird. Both parents produce crop milk — a nutritious secretion from the throat — to feed the young.

Terrible architecture. Extraordinary success.

I'm one of the most abundant birds on the continent. The sad sound was never sad.

It's the most successful love song in North America 🕊️

03/05/2026

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03/04/2026

Oh SO Love 🎼🐤🎶🐦‍⬛🎵🪺🕊️🌿

03/03/2026

Birds are building fervently here in our neighborhood 🎼🐤🎶🐦‍⬛🎵🪺🕊️🌿

03/03/2026

Are you ready, birdhouses in place, to invite a family more more to your neighborhood? Get ready, order today at beegracious or Beegracious Farm ~ click Shop here on our page for handcrafted birdhouses made out of thick wood pieces that mimic the forest ~ NO plywood NO plastic NO fake wood. The birds will surely sing a new song of praise & Thanksgiving morning by morning 🎼🐤🎶🐦‍⬛🎵🪺🕊️🌿

Bird Lovers Get Ready 🐦 ! The great migration of birds north ahead of spring and summer is underway, and we're already getting reports of hummingbirds throughout the southeast. So, get ready over the next 4-6 weeks, we will see them across North Carolina, and fill up the bird feeders.

-Ethan

02/08/2026

Come over join me on WHATNOT (beegracious) for a live auction at 12:30 PM ~ it will short & sweet!

REPURPOSED men’s neckties into unique, stylish ladies necklace. A true statement piece ~

See you soon ~

01/27/2026

Darrell teaching his chickens to dance 🕺 🐓🐓🐓

01/24/2026

Stay safe & warm 🙏♥️🔥
Living the same life style 🐓

The newsman says, “Stay inside, stay warm,” but those of us with farm animals hear something entirely different. We hear, “Get your boots on… they’re waiting for you.”

When I stepped outside this morning, it was as if winter had wrapped the whole farm in glass overnight. Every latch was frozen, every step crunching loud in the silence. I’d prepared for days, but still, my prayer was the same…Lord, please let everyone have made it through the night okay.

The first coop latch was frozen shut. While I chipped the ice, I could hear them shifting inside… but it wasn’t until that first little head peeked out that my whole body finally exhaled.

They were okay.

And then — the sight that made my entire morning. The Splash English Orpingtons, instead of wandering into the covered part of their run, flew straight up onto the riser and perched like a little choir of feathery marshmallows.
(They’re actually avoiding the rooster, who was extra frisky this morning. 🤦‍♀️)

Even with that muddy tarp frozen stiff in the background, it was the most beautiful sight. Proof of resilience. Proof of life doing exactly what life does…
adapting, waiting, trusting.

All the runs were crunchy with frost, the tarps frozen but holding as wind blocks, and the heat lamps glowed like little tanning beds. Under my breath, all I could say was, “Thank You, God.” Over and over.

Today will only be in the 20s, with sleet all day, dropping into the teens overnight, so I know this is just the beginning of this winter storm.

But right now — in this little moment — everyone is safe.
Electricity is still on.
Water is running.
Every creature here is fed, warm, and accounted for.

And I’m claiming that joy, and thanking God for it.

To everyone out there tending animals this morning… my heart sees you. God sees you. Only people like us understand the weight and the love wrapped up in mornings like this. I’m praying for His protection over every creature in your care and over every inch of your place. 🙏

“The Lord is good,
a refuge in times of trouble.
He cares for those who trust in Him.” — Nahum 1:7

Stay safe and warm my friends!

❤️LaurieAnna

12/01/2025

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I still circle above your fields, but the silence rising from below tells you something is breaking.

Since nineteen seventy, North America has lost more than three billion birds, nearly one third of its entire population. Insects, the foundation of that food web, have fallen by roughly seventy five percent. Songbirds now struggle to raise young because there is less to eat. And raptors like me, who depend on them, are disappearing in the same quiet decline.

A red tailed hawk is an apex predator and a biological indicator. I help control rodent populations and save farmers billions in crop damage each year. But every part of my survival rests on the links beneath me. A single chickadee needs nearly nine thousand caterpillars to raise one brood. When insects die, the birds starve. When the birds starve, I follow.

The collapse is subtle. Pesticides meant to tidy lawns kill the soil life that supports everything else. Monoculture grass becomes a silent desert. Native meadows become rare. The food chain weakens from the bottom long before predators feel the fall.

Fun Fact: More than ninety percent of North American songbirds feed their young almost exclusively on insects, making healthy insect populations essential for their survival.

If you want the skies to stay full, you start with the ground beneath your feet. Restore habitat. Grow native plants. Protect the soil. When insects return, songbirds return. When songbirds return, the raptors come back too.



Sources
Science (2019) – Rosenberg et al. study documenting the loss of 3 billion North American birds
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2017) – Hallmann et al. research showing a 75% decline in flying insects
USGS & National Audubon Society – Data on raptor population trends and ecosystem dependence on insect-feeding songbirds