Well, what an odd weekend. We get up Saturday to freezing (literally) temps, seed frozen to the ground and bird baths frozen solid. It took the better part of an hour, and a lot of hot water, to get the yard "ready" for the birds. Then, we got to bed Saturday night with the ground already re-freezing but we wake up and it was 45 degrees! That's Portland for you, I guess.
Here are some photos from Saturday morning.
We left the bird bath drip lines on low for the night, not knowing that they were forecasting freezing temps. So we got up in the morning to frozen waterfalls. Kinda cool!
Frozen grass early in the morning.
Frozen seed in one of our tray feeders.
Frozen plants all over the yard.
This morning, sitting on the patio drinking coffee, we spotted 6 Northern Flickers all in the same tree. It was kind of awesome to see. I have highlighted the 6 birds since it was low light and the photo is kinda grainy.
Here's 3 of the Flickers. They all seemed to be grooming themselves. They were in the tree on and off all day long. We see this tree everyday and we have never seen so many in it.
Here is our "perfect tree". The reason that it is so perfect for us is that it still has about 50 pine cones on it! Nature saw fit to decorate our tree for us! We put some lights on it and a few icicles and that's it. No other decorations needed!
Here's a view of the front of our home. We put more lights and decorations up this year than we have in the past. The sky was so wonderful Saturday night.
We keep the Grinch in the window to ward off any "real" grinches! He has yet to steal our Christmas!
Isn't the sky incredible? This is a shot of a bird house hanging from the side of our home.
We must have taken 40 photos of the sky that night. The sky would change colors every 2 minutes!
Okay, just one more photo of the sky! We'll post bird photos from this weekend in a couple of days. We took too many photos this weekend! Take care and good birding to everyone!
