Happy Harvest Blog
The bird breakfast buffet
It’s the Great Backyard Bird Count weekend, this weekend. Right now. You can watch the map pinging with bird checklists being submitted. I had something cool happen. I was using the eBird lists to see if I could identify this one bird that’s around almost every day, only ever one by itself, and I glanced out and it was here! I feel like it can only be a pine warbler, although he looks much more orangey than yellow. Not a pine grosbeak, though, bc he has the delicate beak.
I won't forget to close the doors again
Forecast: Snow changing to ice pellets then developing to rain later in the afternoon. In other words, gross. This morning at dawn already there were a couple of inches of snow accumulated, and it was eerily dark in the greenhouse, but also very warm, with the blanket of snow. To my horror, only one guinea was walking around. What the? I started closing up the drafty holes in the wall for the chickens to access their yard. I could see by the snow that there were no footprints using them.
Time to feed the birds!
This means, what's in the recycling right now I can make a feeder from?It's always fun to see how long it takes for the birds to find it. Under an hour for a full banditry of chickadees to show up.
Look who I found crossing the path today
I'm sad for all the animals; this weirdly long winter must be so hard on them. The robins are in a high-profile crisis, and I've noticed the dwindling numbers and variety at my feeder, leaving the dauntless corps of constant chickadees and woodpeckers.
Possible cure for birds hitting windows
We just started staying in this place that has big beautiful windows, and lots of bird life. Unfortunately, the windows were claiming a variety of bird lives. In a hurry to try anything at all to end the carnage, I taped a few streamers of wrapping ribbon to the top of the windows.So far, no more bird death!
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