After a high-paced week, and more overtime than I wanted to do, the weekend couldn’t have come soon enough. I slept well last night, and I slept in a bit this morning, which means that I probably missed the early birds for Feederwatch today.
This mourning dove sat out by the deck for the longest time, and appeared to be huddled up in the cold (19 degrees was the high temperature).
A downy woodpecker discovered that I had moved the suet cage to the deck. Last week two crows kept pecking at it from a willow branch till it was on the ground and soon empty. I had to chisel it out of the crusty snow.
I spilled nyjer as I was filling the feeders this morning and as many as twelve mourning doves came by to help with the clean-up. That’s one way to increase the count, and I was glad that it wasn’t going to waste!
Indoors we concentrated on taking down the Christmas tree and reclaiming our living room/dining room area. As I packed up the ornaments I was thinking about each one as I tucked it away.
the oldest ornament on our tree (a plastic bell that I remember from my childhood)….
and the newest ornament, hand-crafted, which Morgan bought for me this Christmas….
Many little projects were competing for my attention today and I feel like I got quite a bit done, especially around the kitchen. I couldn’t let the day go by without time on the Mario rug though.
I’m more than a third of the way done!
