Coffee At Steve’s Country #8.

Posted on January 8, 2021 by

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Good morning everyone! The coffee is ready for you, just grab a cup and relax! I hope all of you are feeling well today and Happy Friday to you as well! It’s cloudy this morning and mild at 21F (-6C), feels quite nice out there actually, and everything has an eerie glow. The clouds are generating, with the help of the sun behind them, are very weird color, somewhat pink, but still not quite. It’s quite hard to describe, certainly not something normal and I don’t think I have ever seen such a color in the winter before today. And it just makes everything take on that same color.

Theodore the turkey on my feeder (left), female pine grosbeak and male evening grosbeak at the back (right)

In the summer when this happens it’s either from forest fires or storms. But there is certainly no fires around and although it’s cloudy, there are no storms either. But it’s not a strong color so trying to capture it on a photo is useless unfortunately. Oh well, it’s interesting anyway. The birds are busy this morning, but the grosbeaks have not arrived yet. Hard to believe we are entering the second week of January and yet temps are still so nice. Other areas of the world seem to be getting our winter right now, not that I really mind however, it’s nice to share.

Common goldeneye ducks with one Barrow’s goldeneye (left), across the river from where I sit.

It’s probably been 20 years since the last time we had such a nice winter. One winter back about that time it was mild like this until about mid January, then the cold hit with fury and stayed for 2 months. But some winters are mild right through. I’m sure the birds and other animals don’t mind the mild weather either. Yesterday on my walk to the river I saw a belted kingfisher. That’s a summer bird around here and the first time I have ever seen one in winter around this area. I tried for a pic because he was in a tree quite close, but I had to move as there were branches in the way.

Major on a very early morning visit, it was just starting to get light, not nearly as light as the pic shows, I was just trying something to see if I could make it brighter, and a pic of the moon two mornings ago.

I guess my movement scared him and off he flew across the river. Sigh. I hope I can get another chance, that would be such a fantastic pic. Each winter some birds stay around that don’t normally, unless winter starts off cold, then all our summer birds leave us for sure. Since we have finished the first week of the new year, today I will show some pics from that first week for you to enjoy. Have a wonderful Friday and God bless!

Steve and Muffin.

©2021 Steve McLeod.

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42 Comments on “Coffee At Steve’s Country #8.”

  1. Good morning, Steve! Thank you so much for sharing the pictures! Wow, that is Theodore! 😁 Major’s pic came out nice as did the pic of the moon. Even with the weird coloring in the sky, the pics of the grosbeaks and ducks were very nice. Thanks again and have a great day! ☕️😁

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  5. Interesting pics ! A good variety ! Major looks great…he seems content with your taking his picture ! ☕️☕️📷🤔🙂😺🦌🌙

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