Birdfeeding

[ysabetwordsmith]

Today started out cloudy, snowflaked a bit, graupelled a bit, and is now partly sunny. Go figure.

I fed the birds. I've seen a flock of sparrows and a pair of cardinals. I heard a woodpecker squeaking but didn't see it .

Yesterday when we were out, we saw a lot of geese flying. There was one massive wing that looked like a whole river delta and had maybe a hundred birds in it.

EDIT 1/27/23 -- I saw several mourning doves in the birdgift tree near the fly-through feeder. While walking outside, I heard geese bedding down for the night and saw them flapping a bit as they settled in the fields. Sleepy geese make sort of a wheedling, twittering sound rather than the loud navigational honks.

turkey!

[redbird]

One of the neighborhood wild turkeys flew up to a branch that's at or a little above eye-level from our kitchen and study windows, meaning 25 or 30 feet above the ground, and stayed there for five or ten minutes.

When cattitude saw the turkey, he assumed it would only stay a moment. Instead, it stood there a while, looking around in different directions, long enough that we thought it might settle in for the rest of the day, if not overnight. I don't know what it was looking for, or waiting for -- maybe company? -- but it left after long enough that we both got a good long look at it, and were able to point it out to one of our cats.

Turkeys are ground-feeding birds, so whatever it was looking for, it wasn't lunch.