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DSC_4159 female cardinal
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DSC_4159 female cardinal

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  • DSC_2414 late day feeder
  • DSC_3091 backyard visitors
  • DSC_2939 backyard visitor
  • These oatmeal peanut butter cookies were a tad too sweet for my taste. But the local birds couldn't get enough of them. And mixing them into the basket with the dried mealworms was magical. Before no one touched the mealworms. Once I put the cookies in with them, the whole basket was empty in nothing flat.
  • DSC_3417 feeding durning the snow
  • At last
  • DSC_3668 The deer of Clove Lakes
  • DSC_3726 The deer of Clove Lakes
  • DSC_3760 The deer of Clove Lakes
  • DSC_3857 the deer of Clove Lake
  • DSC_4031 the deer of Clovve Lakes
  • DSC_4159 female cardinal
  • DSC_4141 female cardinal
  • Nice to see a female woodpecker has come to join the male at my decorative little suet feeder.
  • I have four bird feeders placed about in my backyard. The one I have hanging in the small tree whose branches hang over my property above my tool shed is the most popular. <br /> <br /> At the crack of dawn you will find sparrows chirping away fighting with each other for position on one of the perches.That has not gone unnoticed by the stray cats that frequent my backyard almost as much as the birds. And this one decided to get a jump and ambush some while they were not looking. <br /> <br /> That didn't work with the other stray cat I affectionately named Fuzzball, who at least did the same thing in the summer when the tree was filled with leaves, and the feeder hard to spot. Not now in the dead of winter when everything in and under the tree is as naked as a Jay bird. But that hasn't stopped her from sitting on the roof of my shed and trying.At least she made a nice pose for my camera.
  • DSC_9299 woodpecker
  • DSC_9491 popular perch
  • The third storm this month had me leaving work right on time, right down to the minute. Normally I find myself leaving 10,15, 30 minutes late to finish up doing this that and the other. But with the commute home predicted to be horrible to say the least, I wasn't fooling around with Mother Nature for any reason.<br /> <br /> When I got home I shoveled the my property and some more to either side of me, salted then settled in for the rest the evening in my cozy warm house. Sliding back the vertical blinds in the kitchen I could see my many avian visitors hanging out in the trees waiting for the stray kitties of the neighborhood to loose interest and go away. Soon they came down from the trees and started feeding at all the various feeders spread across the back of my deck. Save for the suet feeder and the basket full of bread crumbs and meal worms, which was covered almost totally by 3 inches of snow.<br /> <br /> A little while later I turned around from whatever I was doing in the kitchen at the time to spot a mocking bird digging into the snow to pull out some meal worms. Grabbing up my camera off the kitchen table, left there for just such occasions, I snapped up a few quick shots to commemorate the moment.
  • DSC_9755 winter scene at Wave Hill
  • DSC_4623 robin
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