Ashli Ahrens

Antique postcard nut (Insta name: MailboxMemories) who also loves history, design, food, art, music, philanthropy & travel. @ADP EE by day; words are my own.

[Ashli Ahrens @AshAhrens]

@Dauphne @giuliag @frankroche @anitapado White-throated sparrow, heard before seen, was the #firstbirdofmyday followed by a big flock of black birds rattling overhead. Gorgeous sky this morning. Happy Friday, bird lovers! #arkansas

[Ashli Ahrens @AshAhrens]

@frankroche @anitapado @giuliag @Dauphne Happy to tweet about the first tweeter of my day - a white-throated sparrow, heard but not seen. Still dark outside, but the early bird gets … whatever he wants. #firstbirdofmyday #whatsyours

[Ashli Ahrens @AshAhrens]

@Dauphne @giuliag @frankroche @anitapado Eerily still & quiet outside this morning. Have not seen a single bird, near or far. Very unusual. Have only heard one - a single white-throated sparrow - which will have to count as #firstbirdofmyday Glad to hear it again for the season.

[Ashli Ahrens @AshAhrens]

@Dauphne @giuliag @frankroche @anitapado A Brown Thrasher - literally thrashing and tossing the mulch under our azaleas - was the #firstbirdofmyday - really pretty bird with speckled breast, long tail and curved beak.

[Ashli Ahrens @AshAhrens]

Tufted Titmouse snacking on sunflower seeds was the #firstbirdofmyday - no migrating visitors anywhere around these days, sadly. What’s yours? @Dauphne @frankroche @WriterHannahBT

[Ashli Ahrens @AshAhrens]

Still traumatized by #firsrbirdofmyday which was the BLAM! of a hawk tussling with a Mourning Dove against our patio door which THANK GOD only left a scattering of feathers, not carnage, to witness over my coffee. Not ready for circle of life demo. 🫣

[Ashli Ahrens @AshAhrens]

Enjoying coffee outside in glorious 58F/14C temps. A fluffed-up Tufted Titmouse, which I heard before I saw, was #firstbirdofmyday here in central Arkansas, USA. Looking forward to fall migration visitors soon. #whatsyours @Dauphne @frankroche

[Ashli Ahrens @AshAhrens]

3 American Robins and one Northern Cardinal - all at once - were the #firstbirdofmyday after I put out breakfast of dried mealworms, sunflower hearts, peanuts & white millet. The muesli of bird breakfasts. #whatsyours @Dauphne @frankroche

[Ashli Ahrens @AshAhrens]

Where there is one Blue Jay there are immediately four. Close family; plus the attraction of the all-you-can-eat buffet I keep stocked. #firstbirdofmyday #whatsyours @Dauphne @frankroche @ImErinAshley

[Ashli Ahrens @AshAhrens]

Pair of Mourning Doves were the #firstbirdofmyday after got the squirrels out of the feeder. #whatsyours @ImErinAshley

[ᗪᗩᑌᑭᕼᑎᗴ 丅ᖇᗴᑎᕼᗝᒪᗰ @Dauphne]

Northern cardinal again.
#firstbirdofmyday #whatsyours
@AshAhrens @giuliag @frankroche

[Ashli Ahrens @AshAhrens]

American Robin was the #firstbirdofmyday #whatsyours @Dauphne @frankroche Temps will be in the triple digits again here today. Keeping fresh water in 3 areas vs. the usual 1.

[Ashli Ahrens @AshAhrens]

I see him!! What a lovely place to perch above. / A “party” or “band” of Blue Jays were the #firstbirdofmyday - that’s what a group of them is called. I easily saw 4 and maybe more - big family of them around here. #whatsyours @ImErinAshley

[Frank @frankroche]

The #firstbirdofmyday is a goldfinch in the wildflower meadow. You have to have a good eye to spot him in the tree. @Dauphne @AshAhrens @anitapado

[Ashli Ahrens @AshAhrens]

Yay hummingbird, Dauphne! Downy Woodpecker was #firstbirdofmyday So HOT and dry here. All the birds have their beaks open to try to cool off since they don’t sweat. They are like dogs in that way. #whatsyours

[ᗪᗩᑌᑭᕼᑎᗴ 丅ᖇᗴᑎᕼᗝᒪᗰ @Dauphne]

Ruby throated hummingbird finally made it into ranks as #firstbirdofmyday! #whatsyours
@AshAhrens @giuliag @frankroche

[Ashli Ahrens @AshAhrens]

My trees have 👀. The American Robins & Mourning Doves always watch me fill feeders from the branches. Today, a Robin was the #firstbirdofmyday But I heard a Red-Bellied Woodpecker & a White-Breasted Nuthatch nearby. #whatsyours @frankroche @Dauphne

[Ashli Ahrens @AshAhrens]

Fledgling Red-bellied Woodpecker & 2 Mourning Doves were the #firstbirdofmyday on a beautiful morning after a glorious rainstorm last night. If I had thought it was actually going to come I would have also taken feeders down.

[ᗪᗩᑌᑭᕼᑎᗴ 丅ᖇᗴᑎᕼᗝᒪᗰ @Dauphne]

@WriterHannahBT Cardinal youngster, waiting with its house sparrow friends for me to put the bird feeders up. I had to take them down yesterday evening because a storm came through -- first rain here in more than a month!
#firstbirdofmyday
@AshAhrens @giuliag @frankroche

[Ashli Ahrens @AshAhrens]

Busy American Robin was the #firstbirdofmyday It’s going to be another scorcher here in Arkansas today. We have 3 watering stations in our tiny yard to help the creatures survive. Rain would be so welcome. #whatsyours @frankroche @Dauphne

[Ashli Ahrens @AshAhrens]

Brown Thrasher & Downy Woodpecker, both trying to get the last bits of a suet cake were the #firstbirdofmyday - I’ve put out 2 more watering areas; unrelenting, brutal heat wave here. #whatsyours @Dauphne @frankroche

[Ashli Ahrens @AshAhrens]

@melissa_sawyer Thank you!!

[Ashli Ahrens @AshAhrens]

The family of “Louds,” (Blue Jays) coddling the fledgling, squawking and flapping its wings, were the collective #firstbirdofmyday #whatsyours

[ᗪᗩᑌᑭᕼᑎᗴ 丅ᖇᗴᑎᕼᗝᒪᗰ @Dauphne]

Female house sparrow, followed soon after by ALL the house sparrows! 😃
#firstbirdofmyday #whatsyours
@AshAhrens @giuliag @frankroche

[Ashli Ahrens @AshAhrens]

A fledgling Blue Jay with his/her skinny neck and gangly teenage look was practicing one of their signature squawks, the “rusty spring” call. #firstbirdofmyday #whatsyours @Dauphne @frankroche