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| John, beloved feeder of birds |
Here's my darling John making sure the birds have their Christmas dinner, too. Like all the pictures of birds at our feeders, it was taken through the kitchen window. As you can see, the evergreen on the right provides shelter and a landing place for the birds and they also like the dwarf lilac hedge. On the left side of the feeders is a large clump birch.
Chickadees snatch one sunflower seed at a time and flip over to the birch to crack it open. The Blue Jay on the other hand appears to fill his gullet with a lot of seeds and then takes off across the street to his own secret spot. The wretched House Sparrows descend in noisy mobs and spew seeds everywhere. I have no suet out at the moment but a female Hairy Woodpecker performs awkward acrobatics to cling to the feeder and pound seeds. Red-breasted Nuthatches visit the trees but I have not actually seen them at the feeder. Redpolls are delightful little visitors and prefer the tray feeder or eating off the ground.
I have great admiration for all the tough birds that survive our harsh prairie winter, even the usually frowned upon magpies and ravens. I always smile when I see a magpie in flight - his wings appear to be rotating like a garden whirligig. A raven on the other hand flies with a loose-jointed flapping and a twanging sheet metal sound.
Merry Christmas, everyone, and happy birding!
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