by HML
We’ve been snowed in for the past week: school was cancelled for the last three days of the week and The Gimlet worked from home as well. It’s not usual for this part of the country to experience temperatures well below freezing, not to mention snowfall, so when it happens the roads and hills become impassable and we find ourselves dealing with an unexpected “staycation” (formerly known as “cabin fever”).
Before the storm the birds were going crazy stocking up on food. Here’s a flock of bushtits mobbing the suet feeder, and we also managed to get a picture of a flicker (similar to a woodpecker) at one of our seed feeders. During the summer we saw mostly sparrows and chickadees at the feeders, but once the weather turned cold, the sparrows haven’t been around much. The chickadees are still frequent visitors, but now we also see plenty of nuthatches, Bewick’s wrens, purple and house finches, bushtits, and dark-eyed juncos.
The lion in winter (a.k.a. Nanaimo) contemplates the snowy scene and the busy bird feeders from his comfy perch indoors by the fire.
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