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Coffee At Steve’s Country #3. Sunny Sunday Pics.
Good morning everyone on this sunny Sunday morning! Well, it will be sunny once the sun comes up, which will be awhile yet. But it is clear with the moon shining brightly. The coffee is ready, help yourself and relax with Muffin and I. I did forget to mention before that my Sunday morning coffee post will be a bit different, a little shorter and more just for pics. Nice sunny pics to help us through these long dark winter months. Actually, as far as winter goes, this has been a nice mild winter with very little snow. However, there is still at least 3 months of winter left, and possibly 4 months if it’s like the last few years. So there’s still lots of time for snow and cold weather to hit us.
Jasper and his rival were really running through the trees this morning. Up, down, across the branches, more up and down. Finally the two connected and had quite the fight on a branch until one of them fell at least 20 feet to the snow below. That one just sat there a few moments then went back up the tree and sat on a branch but decided to just stay there. The other one moved closer this way but was still too far away to see who won that fight. I waited, but the squirrels didn’t move. I can only hope that it was Jasper that won the fight. Guess I will find out eventually. I would hate to lose Jasper after all this time. Well, I hope you all enjoy the pics today. And Muffin’s Mewsings will come out this afternoon. Have a wonderful day and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
©2021 Steve McLeod.
Coffee At Steve’s Country #2.
Good morning on this second day of the New Year! I hope you are all well and enjoying your weekend. Pull up a chair, grab a coffee and relax with us again today! When I went out to feed the birds this morning there was just a little daylight beginning to show, and the chickadees were already here looking for their breakfast. There always is food out there for them just in case I don’t get out early enough. Mainly this food is for the other birds like the grosbeaks and redpolls. It was mild out there with a temp of 23F (-5C), amazing temp for early January, but that does happen some years.
Plus we had some freezing drizzle overnight and some rain early this morning so the hard packed snow on the deck was nice and soft. Maybe I will be able to remove that snow today, that would be nice. Yesterday and this morning there have been a lot of chickadees, their numbers are increasing which is nice too. And the evening grosbeaks have been here for their first breakfast already and should be about ready to come back for their second breakfast very soon. They are nice and regular now too with numbers around 40 birds. Plus there are that many redpolls each day. So the bird situation is looking better all the time. But trying to get out there to take pics is not easy. So I’m trying something different and go out to wait for them to show up, that way coming out the door won’t be a problem.
And so far…it isn’t working any better. I can wait half an hour and no one shows up, so I come back in and within 10 minutes they are back. I think they must be watching me from some far tree and they let the rest know when I have gone back inside. There are about 25 grosbeaks out there right now and…they just flew away. Finches are a nervous group of birds, doesn’t take much to scare them, but they usually come back fairly quickly. That was so nice, Betty the blue jay was sitting on a branch and Baxter, her mate, opened a peanut and then went and sat beside Betty and fed her again. Kind of breakfast in bed. It is always such a treat to watch them do that. And I never have my camera ready when they do it. After their main time of choosing mates I have seen Baxter feed Betty twice now. That’s a nice way to end our time today, I hope you all have a most wonderful day and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
©2021 Steve McLeod.
