Birdfeeding

[ysabetwordsmith]

Today is cloudy and chilly.

I fed the birds. I've seen a female downy woodpecker on the suet cage and a fox squirrel on the hopper feeder.

Last few days

[darkcedars]

We had a couple really pretty days, then back to being pretty cold again. 

I've mostly been seeing the usual suspects - large flock of sparrows, cardinals, jays, mourning doves - but saw the Eurasian collared doves yesterday. They lived in the burr oak all summer. The Merlin app keeps pointing out the sound of a cedar waxwing, but I can never lay eyes on them (they are harder for me to hear usually because the sparrows are so chatty).  I would very much like to see one.  They have to be eating out of the compost bin and then hiding in the hedge.