Visitor

OK, OK. I know, it's a pest. But it's a hungry pest and it's so cold outside. The finches throw down the feeder seeds they deem unworthy and usually it's the juncos that benefit.

Later, I saw a fox sparrow helping itself to a few of the seeds as well. This is the first one we've had at the feeder all winter. Normally, they don't come at all. Does this mean spring is a long way off or that it's just around the corner?

Now that is wishful thinking.

Winter

The snow hasn't stopped all day. It's still cold and so it's not the wet nasty stuff that we usually have which makes great snowballs and snowmen but gets your mittens all wet.

Anne played with the camera and the birds this afternoon. It took a lot of shots of chickadee butts to get these.

I love the junco with the chickadee (it's the butt, of course) on the feeder. Juncos are not very comfortable feeding like this but the snow is too deep for them to find the seeds that the finches kindly fling about.

Chickadees at the feeder and trying to find something good in the snow. A hungry purple finch dives into the feeder. These are our snow birds!