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Morning Coffee At Steve’s Country #26.
Good morning everyone! I hope you all had a most wonderful Christmas day! The coffee is ready, just help yourself and relax with us again this morning. It’s milder this morning with a temp of 12F (-11C), plus it’s cloudy with those lazy kind of snowflakes slowly falling and twirling through the air until they gently land. There’s not enough snow to be a problem, but it is that kind of snow that looks pretty and peaceful. The birds are busily eating and chirping out there this morning. There was just a few each of the pine and evening grosbeaks this morning and they have actually been here for about an hour now. There are nervous birds though, especially the evening grosbeaks and fly off for no reason at all it seems. If the pine grosbeaks are here by themselves, then they will just sit and eat.
There are about 15 chickadees today, same as yesterday afternoon, which is the highest number yet. I haven’t seen Jasper around this morning, or any other squirrel. Both the hairy and the downy woodpeckers have been here for their breakfast. I put out some fresh suet this morning as the suet cages were nearly empty. I haven’t seen the nuthatches yet today and that’s kind of odd, they usually show up quite early. Theodore hasn’t been here either, but then, he’s never too regular anyway. Mama, one of my deer friends, was here yesterday and came running up to me right away to say hi. She likes to be rubbed on her nose, well, not really her nose, I guess it’s more like her upper jaw. Okay, rub, rub.
Now, I tell her, I need to get past, she’s blocking my walkway. She looks at me. I try again, she just turns her head to the side a bit. Now, how does one move a 250 pound animal out of the way? Friendly as they can be, they are still a wild animal, and can be dangerous. Something that always needs to be remembered. But it’s also necessary to never show fear, because that makes them nervous, and even more dangerous. With one kick of her front leg she can knock a 180 pound man off his feet, and then trample him to death. It has happened. So I’m always careful with these critters. So I just start walking and she kindly moves out of the way so I can walk past. Thank you I tell her. I hope you all have a beautiful day and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
©2020 Steve McLeod.
Merry Christmas From Steve and Muffin! Plus Coffee!
Good morning and Merry Christmas everyone! It’s another cold morning, though not like yesterday. It actually warmed up overnight with that south wind that began last evening. The sky is clear so we might get a chance to see the sun for part of the day again. We have lots of coffee available this morning, but I realize everyone is busy today so you may not have the time to stop in and visit. But Muffin is merrily waiting anyway, ready to greet everyone. I have been watching out the window as the birds wake up and start coming to the feeders.
Hmm, they must be busy today too, for about half an hour the only birds were 2 chickadees. Finally four more showed up. Then Baxter and Betty came, and a little while later 3 other blue jays showed up as well. Finally a little downy woodpecker came for his breakfast. Jasper was the last one to arrive and he started hauling away peanuts.
Poor Jasper isn’t too bright sometimes. He goes up a tree with his peanut and “hides” it on one of the branches. He leaves and a blue jay is right there to take his peanut. Jasper sees that and the chase is on! Then the blue jay kind of teases him a bit by going just far enough to stay out of reach. Finally he jumps at the blue jay…but the jay just flies away and Jasper is left clinging upside down on a very tiny branch. But there is a bigger branch under him so he lets go and lands on that branch and sits chattering at the blue jay.
One day Jasper will learn that you can’t chase a blue jay and win. Well, maybe he will learn. He also needs to learn that putting a peanut on a branch is not hiding it. Oh well, it all helps with his exercising I guess. I will keep this short this morning and let you enjoy the pics. Have a wonderful Christmas day and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
©2020 Steve McLeod.
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