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Enjoying New Year’s Day With A Tufted Titmouse
I’m enjoying the first day of 2023 with my green tea, in a mug that was given to me by a treasured friend. A mug with a Tufted Titmouse gracing front and back. And appropriately I’m making notes on the birds that I’m seeing out my windows, coming by for the seeds that I’ve put…
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All The BEST That 2023 Has To Offer
The clocks are ticking away. Making 2022 soon vanish. Turning the page to 2023. WISHING YOU THE BEST YEAR EVER! _______________________________________________ If you would like to receive my daily blog posts, sign up here!
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The Event Was Recorded
Bright and early this morning I happened to look out the bedroom window. Not far away, a Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus), worked away at a fallen tree rotting on the ground. This woodpecker is quite large, the size of a crow. It’s one that I see quite often flying from one tree to another, or…
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Northern Cardinals In The Garden
Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis). A frequent visitor to my feeders and in other parts of this world they’re found in southeastern Canada, throughout eastern US from Maine to Minnesota, to Texas, New Mexico, southern Arizona, southern California, and south through Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala. I think of Northern Cardinals as birds that eat seeds and fruit, but during the summer they also eat…
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GrandKitty Camp And The Birds are Safe
Betelgeuse, the GrandKitty. We’re having a grand time at GrandKitty Camp. In the US outdoor cats kill 2.4 billion (or thereabouts) birds each year. Not Betelgeuse though. She’s a very happy indoor cat, who follows her instincts by pouncing on a feather attached to a string, running round and round to get it. Please help…
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A New Woodpecker For Me
I’m not one that keeps a life list of birds that I’ve seen. But when the Red-headed Woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus) was mentioned as being active in Batesville (Albemarle County) Virginia, that got my attention. I’ve never seen one in Virginia, though they are listed as living here year round. Today I got to see a…
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Busy Couple Days In The Garden
A very cold Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. The temperature fell to -2° on Saturday, Christmas Eve morning, and by Christmas Day the temperature had risen to a “warm” 32° in the afternoon. This brought at least 12 species of birds to the garden where I had scattered sunflower seeds. Extra calories to help them…
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Just Flurries – So Far
This morning there were snow flurries for a few hours. Perhaps because we had flushed ice cubes last night. That’s good but we’ll still work on it tonight and again tomorrow night, Christmas Eve. This snow stuff requires hard work sometimes, even to get flurries. If you’ve got a snow candle, we’d appreciate your support.…