Backyard birds

What a beautiful morning! The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, the heat is on, and there is snow on the ground. The only thing that could make this better is if Dan was already home from Mexico. He is scheduled to arrive this evening so I hope there is no interfering weather for him to contend with.

I keep three bird feeders outside in the winter. One each for regular seed, thistle seed, and suet. I get a pretty large variety of birds to come to them and I enjoy watching them frolic around. (I am definitely a crazy bird person). Our most common birds are chickadees, cardinals, yellow finches, house sparrows, blue jays, downy woodpeckers, and mourning doves. We also commonly see starlings, grackles, red-bellied woodpeckers, juncos, white-throated sparrows, white-crowned sparrows, cowbirds, nuthatches, titmouses (titmice??), and hummingbirds (they like the mimosa tree). Last year we had a yellow bellied sapsucker drill about 300 holes in our larger pine tree. I also occasionally spot a golden-crowned kinglet rummaging around in the cedars between our house and the neighbors.

A white-throated sparrow all puffed up :)