When I got up this morning, I wandered into the kitchen to see how much it had snowed overnight. It was just over a foot, which is more snow than we got all winter last year. More important that the amount of snow were that the birds were in a frenzy. Every bird that lives in our woods was trying to get to the feeders. The Juncos — there were so many of them — were having airborne battle, bonking into each other with lots of flapping.
There were Cardinals — orange and red. Sparrows. Blue Jays. Goldfinches, House Finches, Red-bellied Woodpeckers, Hairy Woodpeckers. I threw a lot of seeds out onto the deck so the walking birds could eat, then Owen came up and put out the flat feeder and filled the other two. They calmed down for a while.
I couldn’t include all the pictures. I took more than 200 pictures in a very short time. Removing pictures where there weren’t any birds (oops) or it’s entirely out of focus, it was still more than 200 pictures. My almost new OMD EM-1 Mark II focuses really fast, so more shots than usual came out surprisingly sharp.
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Oh my! Such a wide variety! What a lovely ‘gift’ for you to be able to see! Thanks for sharing the joy!
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It’s the same story this morning. Birds need to eat their own weight in food every day — and more when it’s this cold. It is fortunate that our across-the-street neighbors ALSO feed the birds. It means that at least in this little pocket of woods, the birds will survive the winter.
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Lots of action there Marilyn.
Leslie
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I didn’t catch most of it because I shoot through windows with panels, so I can’t easily get a wider perspective. The lenses that let me do that would require I actually go outside and the birds would leave. But it was a wild and crazy day … and today is exactly the same as yesterday. I couldn’t get to the flat feeder, but I threw out a lot of seed on the deck for them. We had eight blue jays on the deck and more at the feeders. Never seen so many of them!
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They must have been hungry….
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Birds are ALWAYS hungry as are squirrels. Haven’t seen ANY squirrels since it got cold. They may be feeding very early in the morning.
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