Birds, Birds, and More Birds!

The above picture is rather fuzzy because I was taking it through a screened window, but it shows C's homemade bird feeder with a bird actually sitting on the stick eating! And on the ground under the feeder are several small brown birds eating seed that has fallen on the ground. We were so excited!! This is the first time we have seen a bird actually ON the feeder. This feeder is made from a large juice jug with a bamboo stick stuck through near the bottom and 1/2 inch holes cut on each side about 2 inches above the stick. These size holes are for large seed (sunflower seeds and other large seeds) and attract different birds than small seed does. We now have 3 different types of feeders in our yard: suet, small seed, and large seed. And so far this week we have seen the following birds in our yard: cardinal, blue jay, downy woodpecker, mourning dove, the as yet unidentified brown bird, and even a CRANE!



Today we hung G and L's bird houses on the side of our shed. These are the bird houses they made at their Stockade campout last month. We are very much hoping that some birds will make their nests in them before winter really strikes. I had to cut down a bunch of shrubbery that had grown nearly to the top of the shed before hanging the bird houses, and you can still see a bit of it in the front of the picture. It needed to be done anyway.......:-)

We are just having so much fun learning about birds and observing so many different types of birds in our yard even during cold weather!