New Spring Clothes

While our Spring flowers

seem to be refusing to pop open,

this little Goldfinch

is starting to get his New Spring Outfit.

 

 



Wishing You a Blessed Easter

 

 

 

from the "Revelation Song"

 

Holy, Holy, Holy

is the Lord God Almighty

Who was and is and is to come.

With all creation I sing

praise to the King of kings.

You are my everything

and I will adore You.



Saying "Goodby" to Winter

Here it is, the first day of Spring,

and I have yet to post any of my Winter birds.

 

The Yellow-shafted Northern Flicker is a bird

I do not see very often.  Usually it feeds on the ground,

but this winter it came to my feeders on my deck.

You can see the yellow under his tail.

 

 The Flicker can really blend into the bark of a tree.

 

Another bird I hear but don't see up close very often

is the Pilated Woodpecker.

 

 

The Tufted Titmouse are regulars year around.

I love seeing them in the Winter all puffed up to keep warm.

 




Opps!  I Missed Him.

The Downy and the Hairy Woodpeckers are regulars also.

Sometimes they wait patiently to take their turn at the suet.

 

 

The larger Hairy is waiting on the little Downy.

Well, maybe not too patiently...

 Another bird we see only in the Winter

is the little Snowbird--the Dark-eyed Junco.

The Goldfinch add a flash of color no matter what the season.

 

 

The Nuthatch and the House Finch

anxiously getting some food

on a Blustery Day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Baby, It's Cold Outside.

 

And what would Winter be

without our

Pesky Squirrels?

 

 

"I've learned to do this like the Woodpeckers!"

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And Last but Not Least

this sweet little Carolina Wren.

I don't usually see them in the Winter,

but there it was searching for food in the snow.

 

 

New Birds-- ID?

Over the Christmas Holidays we were blessed to spend time with the families of both of our daughters, one in St. Louis and the other in Texas.

Our daughter and her husband in Texas recently moved to the hill country on the Southwest side of Austin.  When we visted them this past spring, they were living in the city and I hardly saw any birds; but now I was suprised to see many of the birds that I see here in Indiana at the feeder in thier backyard.  They had the Chickadees, the Titmouse, the House Finch, the Carolina Wren, the Cardinal and the Blue Jay.   Much to my delight, there were a couple of new birds I had never seen before.

The first I believe is a Western Scrub Jay. 

The second bird I almost missed. The sun in the morning was so bright it
was sometimes hard to see. I feel sure it is a Warbler. Maybe a Pine Warbler or a Yellow Warbler. If anyone has any better ideas, please let me know.

 

Their backyard does border a natural wildlife area.

We definitely heard the coyotes' howling very close at night.

They have seen a Road Runner in their backyard.

I missed seeing one, so I guess I will need to go back.

 

 

 

It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas

 

We finally had our first snowfall.

Not too much....Just right.

 

 

Our cats have been very involved

with our preperations for Christmas.

 

Fraidy Cat helped get out the decorations.

 

 

Ezra thinks he "owns" the Christmas Tree.

In fact, he's been doing a little re-decorating at nights.

 



 

And Nehemiah, what can I say,

"Oh come, Let us Adore Him."

 

 

However, sometimes there is a little disagreement

over who should be doing the "adoring."

 

 

 

Nehemiah and Ezra

finally settled in for their "long winter's nap."

 

 

Watching for Santa, together..

or was that bird watching?