Happy Harvest Blog
The return of winter
Winter was back for a few days. The wild birds descended in clouds for something to eat, including a few new birds. There was a purple finch. This is sad because it's the first purple finch sighting of the year, when normally there would be many of them all winter. Here's a sad robin. I don't eat seeds. Now that the rain has come and washed away the snow, she's eating well, if she survived her three day fast. There was a red-breasted nuthatch, tiny and adorable in a little badger mask.
Birdland
Ketchup and Mayo, hangin'. They're so mild. I think it was from being raised by a Silkie hen. They won't leave Silkieland, even though they can. They come and go from inside to out, visiting the roosters on the outside, but always back in at night. There was a hummingbird trapped in the greenhouse, zooming back and forth, stopping to refill at tomato flowers. I thought it best to not interfere and hope he got out.
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.
Robin's nest
We have a clutch of robin’s eggs in the shed. Three nearly hairless little birds, asleep whenever I look at them.I want this robin’s chicks to make it, since I’m pretty sure it was a raven that savaged my barn robin nestlings in BC.
Instagram.
I may not make a blog post every day, but at least I Insta.
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