December 3, 2010 - 2
Backyard Sightings For Last Week:Including northern cardinals, dark-eyed juncos, blue-jays, brown creepers, chipping sparrows, song sparrows, white-throated sparrows, goldfinches, house finches, purple finches. Barn swallows, Carolina wrens and chickadees, catbirds, mockingbirds. Red-bellied and downy woodpeckers, yellow-bellied sapsuckers, northern flickers, white-breasted and red-breasted nuthatches, tufted titmice, mourning doves and crows. Skunks, red squirrels, grey squirrels, and a pair of opossums that were seen chasing each other around the pond.
Cool Sightings Of The Week:
First, both of the smaller birdbaths were seen to be frozen solid during the cold temps of this past week. We haven't dipped too far into the teens though, so I haven't had to use the pond heater yet.
Also this week, just yesterday, it was another one of those slower times at the bird feeders. Suddenly, as I watched from my window, many of the birds began to return to the feeders. I'm not sure how this happens, maybe it's just coincidence, but it seems to happen often that when I look out at the empty feeders, the birds will begin to return to them. It's times like this when my intellectual mind wonders if there might be some connection between myself and the birds, perhaps from the many years of close contact and caring for them, but my common sense considers that theory to be dubious at best and maybe a bit absurd!
Either way, Old Man Winter is most certainly on his way to the northeast. With late November temps in the teens this past week, all of us here have been feeling very cool!
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