Lovely home with private backyard near Portland & wine country in Wilsonville.

I love watching the birds while I'm eating breakfast at my kitchen table. We get Hummingbirds, Steller Blue Jays, Goldfinches, Acorn, Downy and other Woodpeckers and Flickers, Varied Thrush, Evening Grosbeaks, Towhees, Mountain Chickadees, Nuthatches, lovely red House Finches, Mourning Doves, and a bunch of others I don't know. We even had a pair of neighborhood wild turkeys but I haven't seen them in a while. I've had an ongoing battle with the squirrels who have been raiding my bird feeders but we have come to a truce. I feed them peanuts (unsalted only) occasionally and they stay out of my bird feeders. It helps that I changed all the hangers to fishing line they haven't figured out how to defeat yet. It's fun watching their acrobatics as they try. I also loved raising my daughter in this house. It's easy to child-proof the downstairs and the huge backyard kept her busy. We have lots of edible plants (full disclosure...not everything in our yard is edible so if you have small children keep an eye on them. As of this post we do not have anything I know to be deadly) We do have kiwi, grapes, strawberries, blueberries (just a few), raspberries (also just a few), culinary herbs...Bay leaves, rosemary, thyme, mint, and chives. Some years I plant parsley and cilantro too and there are tons of blackberries behind our fence.