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Art In Nature #5.
Hello everyone and welcome back to another art in nature post. It’s actually been 2 weeks since our last one due to a little mix-up in posting schedules. But here we are with some more pics of winter scenes showing the beauty of nature in a slightly different way. Instead of scenery pics which are normal for winter, we like to look at little, or sometimes not so little things that show us the beauty surrounding us that we might otherwise miss. It’s so easy to be in a hurry and miss the beauty around us. Or other times we just don’t even think that there is beauty in some things until we really take a close look at something. Like the beauty of frost on a window.
Because windows are so well made these days, that is something we often miss in our present society. In some ways that is a good thing however!
Or perhaps a rock sitting off shore in the river, surrounded by a little ice and then covered with snow. It’s easy to walk right past something like that, but just stop and look at it and suddenly we can see the beauty of art in that rock. And then there is our featured image of some nice frosted, dried flowers with the sun just beginning to touch them. True art in nature to enjoy. I hope you like these pics today, have a wonderful day and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
©2021 Steve McLeod.
Coffee At Steve’s Country #40.
Good morning everyone! It’s another chilly one out there, but warmer by a couple of degrees. I’m not sure if that really makes much of a difference though. So, there’s extra coffee on this morning, just help yourself and relax while watching the birds. Oddly enough, there are lest birds at the feeders when it gets very cold like it is these days. Personally I would think that birds would want an easy source of food when it’s super cold. But instead they stay hidden away among the trees. Not all the birds of course, but a lot of them. Many still show up and enjoy the free food that is being offered that day.
And that includes the shrike, of course. He was here twice yesterday and the blue jays were able to chase it away both times. The poor little birds, it’s cold, they need to eat and the shrike comes around and the birds need to stop eating and hide. One poor little red-breasted nuthatch was out in the open when that shrike showed up the first time. So he just sat there as still as could be, hoping the shrike wouldn’t come down after him. That would have been the end of my little nuthatch. So I got my jacket and boots on quickly and went out on the deck close to the nuthatch. I didn’t scare the nuthatch, he knew that I could be trusted, so he continued to sit motionless.
I stood there watching the shrike, protecting my nuthatch. Finally one blue jay attacked, making the shrike fly, then all the other blue jays attacked as well. But it’s the male blue jays that attack the shrike, the females take cover in safe locations. There was 4 males to attack the shrike and they did a good job, chasing that shrike a long distance away before returning. The birds began to move around again once the blue jays were out of sight chasing the shrike. The little nuthatch came and landed briefly on my shoulder and looked at me, then back down to the suet to finish his breakfast. Almost like he was saying thank you. I hope you all have a wonderful day and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
©2021 Steve McLeod.
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