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Steve’s Bird Of The Day #24.
Hello again everyone! Well, today we have a very colorful bird, the “American Goldfinch”. This is a small bird the size of a chickadee and for us here in the north it is a summer visitor. This is the male in it’s summer plumage in the top photo, and it’s winter plumage in the bottom photo. Although it is normally a summer bird for us, last winter they were around in record numbers. Until last winter I had never seen one here in winter, so it was a special treat. There were over 100 that would come to my feeder at times, regularly there was around 50 of them. They have a nice cheerful song and usually come back here in May and leave in early fall heading south. They are easily attracted to feeders and love sunflower seeds and niger seeds. I hope you have a great day and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
©2021 Steve McLeod.
Art In Nature #8.
Hi and welcome to our Art in Nature series! I’m finally getting used to my regular weekly posting of this series and next week we will be adding some different things to it just for some variety, but still staying with the art in nature aspect of these posts. I hope you will enjoy the new additions.
I normally only do the art in nature posts during the winter months, but I may keep it going all through the summer this year as well. I really enjoy looking for little oddities that we normally would not pay any attention to, so that we can all see the incredible beauty that abounds all around us.
And hopefully we can then apply this idea to our lives in general, so that instead of seeing all the negative things around us, we can also see all the positive things. And some of these things that we might consider a negative aspect, can really show forth a lot of beauty. Like dead grass, or leaves. Dried flowers, perhaps just a rock, some ripples on the water, even a dead branch or tree can have real beauty and produce some wonderful art in nature.
Even insects can be some incredible art in nature, even though not many people like insects too much. But given the right time, the right location and they can be incredible art in nature. So I hope you enjoy today’s selections, have a wonderful day and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
©2021 Steve McLeod.
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