White winter light and birds of color
These were taken yesterday when it was even colder than today. Considering that early this morning it was several degrees below zero, “even colder” means something.
How do the poor little birds keep their tiny feet from freezing? You’d think they would grow feather stockings or little feathery boots on their tiny feet. I want to take them all in and warm them up!
Flapping wings and changing feathers. One of these Goldfinches looks like he has a black eye, but it’s just a black feather that’s a little out of place.
A Black-eyed Goldfinch and the feathery other …
I look at their tiny little feet and I feel immediately cold. How do they keep from freezing in this deep winter weather?
Junco and stone toad
Two Goldfinches on the finch feeder
Are these little birds ever warm during the winter months? And finally, one special photograph …
Chipper Sparrow in a graphic style
Categories: birds, Marilyn Armstrong, Photography, square
I love your shots of the birds at your feeder Marilyn. I too wonder how they keep so warm, with no protection in just our milder winters. I watch them take baths in winter and admire them. It is fascinating to me the way different animals and birds are devised and mechanisms to survive most weather.
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All I can say is, it’s wonderful you provide for them. I agree, I’ve always wondered how those little feet stay warm, mine certainly don’t! hmmm.
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They still need tiny little booties.
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I wished I could send you this hilarious clip on “Would I Lie To You” a british comedy show in which they are given a card and (sometimes it’s true and sometimes not) they have to sell the lie. This one comedian pulls out 1 1/2 inch “socks” for swans…it is hilarious. I thought of those itty bitty socks the second I read this. haha
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Most of the swans I’ve met could easily wear a size 10 wide! Those are big birds with wide floppy feet.
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They are. These socks the guy “supposedly” made were the size of your little finger. It was hilarious.
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I foresee a whole new industry – Booties for Birds?
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I can see all the knitters trying to figure out what size boot for a Finch versus a Robin 😀
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Definitely have to be personalized….
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Really TEENY TINY stitches.
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Fabulous bird squares Marilyn, and it is I agree quite extraordinary how they don’t freeze
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Their tiny feet look so fragile. I get chilled just seeing them.
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Apparently the blood in their feet is colder than elsewhere, which is why they don’t lose much heat from them and don’t really feel the cold through their feet either. Quite extraordinary!
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Birds have a very different body structure than mammals. It’s pretty interesting. I didn’t know that.
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