Coffee Time! #6

Good morning everyone! It’s a nice day here, partly sunny, though a bit on the chilly side. Someone is outside shoveling their walkway from their house out to the main sidewalk. I haven’t seen or heard any birds yet this morning. Nothing unusual about that though. Monday there was a flock of redpolls flying around and calling to each other.

I also heard some chickadees singing their cheerful little song. It is obvious that no one close by is feeding the birds, or there would be more action around here. Oh well. Feeding the birds always made winter more cheerful and fun. Chickadees would often land on my arms or on my hat, looking for some food. I would stand out there watching them, and often taking pictures of them as well.

Male Evening Grosbeak.

I do have a lot of pictures of the birds at my feeders. I would be taking pictures nearly every day. I haven’t even looked at my camera for about 3 weeks now. Terrible thing really. Speaking of plants. I like to have plants indoors, it’s especially nice in the winter, adding that touch of greenery which really helps during the long winter months.

They don’t need to produce flowers, although flowers are a nice addition, but just seeing green plants growing is nice. And some plants have colorful leaves, like my calathea. I have 3 different ones now and I would like to get more but they don’t show up in this town very much. Most of my plants are safe for cats, just in case Muffin decides to chomp on one.

Female Common Redpoll on my hand.

Others that are not safe for her to eat I keep out of her reach. That’s easy to do now that she doesn’t jump like she did before. Muffin enjoys gardening too, her little pot of oat grass is doing great. I don’t think it has ever grown so well as this latest batch. Muffin keeps it well trimmed too, though I have to keep turning the pot so she trims it evenly all around.

I did have a problem with a spider mite infestation recently though and I lost a few plants because of it. Other plants I was able to save fortunately. Those spider mites can sure multiply quickly, but things are now under control again.

White-Breasted Nuthatch at the feeder.

I started the post this morning and just finished it, 5 hours later. I got sidetracked in between, that’s why. Sigh. Well, that’s all for today, I hope you all have a great day and God bless!

Steve and Muffin.

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