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Feb. 7th, 2007 07:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
winterbadgerIt's cold and SNOWY! Yay!
It is SO beautiful outside. I really can't express how much I love snow, no matter the bother it makes of driving and that I can't cycle in it (at least, I don't dare). It is so magical and lovely. It makes almost any scene more beautiful, and when I have these lovely woods to look at to begin with...
But it is still quite cold. I looked up this morning and saw that the cats were intently watching half a dozen mourning doves breakfasting by the window. Then when I opened the blinds, I saw that the birdfeeder was TOTALLY EMPTY!! Horrors! Hard enough being a bird in this weather, but for the lunch counter to be bare of tasty essentials...
I can be too clever, though/ Ot took about 10 minutes and three or four wanders around the apartment scratching my head to remember where I had stashed the extra bird seed (in the bottom of a pile of three milk crates otherwise filled with grocery bags waiting to be recycled). So I filled up the feeder, scattered a lot on the ground for the juncos and the doves and the squirrels, and put the rest in a cannister by the front door. Let it hide in plain sight...
It is SO beautiful outside. I really can't express how much I love snow, no matter the bother it makes of driving and that I can't cycle in it (at least, I don't dare). It is so magical and lovely. It makes almost any scene more beautiful, and when I have these lovely woods to look at to begin with...
But it is still quite cold. I looked up this morning and saw that the cats were intently watching half a dozen mourning doves breakfasting by the window. Then when I opened the blinds, I saw that the birdfeeder was TOTALLY EMPTY!! Horrors! Hard enough being a bird in this weather, but for the lunch counter to be bare of tasty essentials...
I can be too clever, though/ Ot took about 10 minutes and three or four wanders around the apartment scratching my head to remember where I had stashed the extra bird seed (in the bottom of a pile of three milk crates otherwise filled with grocery bags waiting to be recycled). So I filled up the feeder, scattered a lot on the ground for the juncos and the doves and the squirrels, and put the rest in a cannister by the front door. Let it hide in plain sight...
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Date: 2007-02-07 12:58 pm (UTC)we are by our space heater, watching yur burds
Date: 2007-02-07 01:09 pm (UTC)Re: we are by our space heater, watching yur burds
Date: 2007-02-07 01:27 pm (UTC)And the grackles.
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Date: 2007-02-07 04:34 pm (UTC)I actually think you could bike in this, if you want to. It's just wet, not slick.
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Date: 2007-02-07 04:47 pm (UTC)Glad you're gettign a good sampling of the birds! I was watchign from the car yesterday as I warmed the engine up, and I could see a whoel block of blue jays arrive at one; most of them perched in trees around the feeding area to keep watch, while one or two at a time would swoop down to the feeder, grab a beakful, and swoop away again to keep watch. Creatures are so fascinating!