Flashback Friday

TBT:  Today, pictures of snowy events...  We don't always get snow in Winter, but sometimes frequent and deep.  The Mews have reacted to it differently over the years.

LC exploring snow...

Ayla exploring snow...

Laz exploring snow...

Marley exploring snow...

Iza exploring snow...

That's about as far as she would go.  

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The birds appreciate the sunflower seeds and suet baskets.  Both the seeds and the suet provide oils and calories, but I've read that the suet is more valuable to them in the coldest weather.  Why birds think of eating beef fat seems a bit strange.

But the important thing here is that I can count 7 male cardinals and I assume there are equal number of females but they are harder to see in most pics.

Plus all sorts of smaller songbirds who don't migrate.

Keeping the feeder full is one of the few things that gets me out on snowy weather.  I support my small flocks.  When I moved here, there were almost none.

Flashback Friday

Today we return to the thrilling days of this week in 2013!

The Cardinals were enjoying the rebuilt feeder.  I love the one in flight!  The double baffle really did (and still does) baffle the squirrels.  I saw one try again yesterday.

I had quite a large flock of them sometimes...  And these are just the males.  The females were in branches waiting to take their turn feeding.

The Mews all got along well at the time (sometimes it was "iffy" with Ayla and Iza, but the the bed was sort of neutral territory).   And of course Marley was between them.

Iza and Marley often went mousie-hunting together.

Iza loved rolling around in the leaf debris.  She would come in covered with stuff and I had to brush it off her (just by hand) so that I wouldn't find the bed covered with leaf-grit.

I had beds of Hyacinths then.  That was before the voles infested the yard and found them.  Now there are just individual survivors.  I need to get after the moles again.  The moles make the tunnels the voles use to search for roots to eat

And Ayla was enjoying "walking the fence"...