Steve`s Country
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Thursday’s Thoughts. #32
Good morning everyone! I hope you are all well and enjoying your day. It is very nice here this morning with a temperature of 23F (-5C), cloudy and it just finished snowing a short while ago. We really didn’t get much snow overnight, maybe an inch (2.5cm). I went out at 7:20 this morning to put the feeders out before the birds arrived, it was still dark at that time. But the chickadees met me as I came out! I have never seen the chickadees out when it is still dark, until this winter. I did leave one feeder and one suet feeder outside last night, so they did have food to start their early day.
The female downy was the first woodpecker to show up this morning. She usually is the first woodpecker to arrive each morning now. While she was there at the one suet feeder I looked over to suet feeder #2 and a chickadee was on it, and over on suet feeder #3 there was a red-breasted nuthatch. Oddly enough, though the red-breasted nuthatches love the suet, I have never seen a white-breasted nuthatch eating suet. It’s the same with the jays, Canada jays love the suet, but blue jays won’t go near it. After the downy woodpecker was finished with her suet, she went over to one of the hanging feeders, picked up a sunflower seed and off she flew.
Jasper was here this morning too getting some peanuts. Chuck, the crow, likes to follow Jasper and pick up the peanuts that Jasper hides. Jasper is not too smart sometimes when it comes to hiding peanuts. He hid one out in the yard and left, right away Chuck was down after the peanut and Jasper came running back chasing the crow. But the crow was back down again when Jasper left. This went on no less than 10 times, but, the last time Jasper quickly picked up his peanut and ran off with it. Chuck obviously did not see that and he was back down digging all around that spot trying to find the peanut which was no longer there.
It was funny to watch Chuck digging all around for nothing. That is a win for Jasper. However, Jasper has lost a lot of peanuts too, as I have watched Chuck go down and find what Jasper has hidden. I learned something a couple days ago, that is, the word “suet” does not always translate into other languages when people use the Google translate widget. One of my faithful readers pointed this out to me, so I learned something which was quite interesting. So, I am going to do a post a little later today about suet and how I make my “suet cakes” for the birds. Thank you all for joining me here again today! Have a wonderful day and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
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Steve`s Country 
Jasper always seems to have an antagonist…
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Yes, he does seem to attract them. And Chase, plus another squirrel, are giving him headaches every day as well.
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poor guy – but he hangs in there!
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Yes, he doesn’t give up.
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that’s why I like him…
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Yes, both Jasper and Jasmine were out here today. But Jasmine was keeping him away from the food. He didn’t go far though and ended up getting his share of peanuts.
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she’s got his number!
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Yes, that is so true!
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Your feathered friends are delighted you make suet cakes
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They sure are popular!
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I bet! My Mum used to do something similar.
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She used to feed birds too?
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She had a large garden which backed onto a golf course and loads of bird houses, bird feeders etc. It was a fabulous garden, always full of colour and she spent hours (and lots of money) maintaining it. My youngest sister Jane appears to have inherited her green fingers.
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Sounds like a splendid garden Sheree! The English know how to produce fantastic gardens. I knew an English man here that was a wonderful gardener and he taught me a lot about gardening. He had a beautiful garden. Thanks for sharing that Sheree!
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A pleasure Steve
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😀😺
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Thanks, Steve 😊😸
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My pleasure!😀😺
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Great pics ! The frosted tree looks so pretty ! So Jasper is still around…good that he is persistent …most of the time ! Rest well ! 🙂😻🎄😴
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Thank you! Yes, Jasper doesn’t usually give up easy. Have a good night!😁😻🌙😴
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So beautifully written today’s story Thursday’s thought 👌🌷🙏The bird’s photos
Seeing time feeling very cold so nice 👍🏻🌷they knows their food already there 👌😊
Here everyday raining ☔️ Your country winter days ❄️Have a lovely winter Friday 🌫🙏
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