Birds of a Feather

I'm a couple days behind in getting my post on here....I'll just attribute that to the house of sickness we had this last weekend. Maddie started it on the eve of our "Opening Ceremonies" get-together [after having acquired the "bug" from a text...***], then passed it on to Lester for Sunday, then Corben enjoyed an evening of it that night as well. I figured I was next, but thankfully I'm still on the good side of it [now that I've said that.....hmmmmm]. All I can say about the weekend is that I'm so very thankful for our recent purchase of a portable Bissell carpet cleaner. That thing rocks! :D

Anyways, this post is definitely for the BIRDS! Since we moved here to this home, we've had so many birds coming to our yard. Our old house, as great as it was had only one tree on the whole property. I couldn't get a bird in our yard to save my life, well except for the bluebirds. I even had two different feeders, but no birds, in fact the mice enjoyed the food before the birds did. Boooo!

So, on to the birds here - well it's like night and day -- there are birds everywhere, and I love it. I have 4 different feeders [with more planned] and have identified more than 25 different birds thanks to my bird watchers book I got on Christmas Eve :D [and hence one of the many reasons Patton the cat continues to be an indoor cat!] Here are some of my favorites:




























Bird identification:
Row 1 - White Throated Sparrow [White striped], Northern Cardinal,
Row 2 - Red Bellied Woodpecker [female], Yellow Rumped Warbler
Row 3 - Mockingbird, White Breasted Nuthatch

I'm trying to take pictures of all the varieties of birds we see in our yard, and as spring comes we will have the birds that come home from migration. Look forward to more "for the birds" posts! :D

***We had some friends text us prior to our "get together" and say they had a sick child, but that one of them could come with the other child that wasn't sick -- but if that would be taking too great a chance in exposing us, that they would just stay home. We agreed that was the best idea - since none of us had been sick "yet." So much for that......Maddie was throwing up within three hours of that text. See? It was the text! LOL