Monday, March 25, 2013

What I saw on the feeder.....

All winter my feeder has been empty.  Not with food, but with birds. For 15 years I have been feeding birds outside my dining room window.  I have used the same food, safflower seeds, because the squirrels will not eat it.  I always have a profusion of birds.


This year nothing.  Nada.  I changed the seed, washed the feeder, put out a new feeder.  Nothing.  So I changed the feeder back to the original beacuse I love it and put the seed I always use in it.  Sunday, a return to cold, this pretty lady showed up.


Smiles all around.

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  1. oh I love cardinals. we don't get them over here . enjoy!

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  3. Not sure where you live, but we've had a blast of winter this past week or so. The poor robins had just starting showing up and now they are looking for sweaters! Usually have a pair around my feeders, along with some nuthatch, junkos, and chickadees. Not so much of blue jays lately.

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    2. Karen, I am in North Texas. I have not seen any robins yet, but I hope to see them soon!

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  4. Cardinals are my favorite, but none here. The birds at our feeder have become for us, great predictors of bad weather. Dozens of them show up right before it rains. I should have know something was really up right before our last snow storm;-) We also have more birds in the early morning, and late afternoon. Not many, if any during the day. I hear them all day, but no visitors to the feeder.
    blessings, jill

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    1. Jill, that was so correct! The day after that cardinal appeared we had another freeze after severl days of very warm weather!

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  5. I was so intrigued when I saw the title of your blog that I followed the link and I'm so pleased I did! You have a lovely blog.

    I have a mix of young and older children and can completely understand the need to re-invent as they grow up and start to move on. But, as I'm getting used to the changes, I'm beginning to see time for my old hobbies - which was why I found your blog inspiring. Like you, I love photography, sewing, smocking, knitting, etc, etc:-)

    God bless:-)

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    1. Vicky, Thank you so much for the comments! Being a grandmother seems harder today than I think it was for our mothers. Does it for you?

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  6. Um, now I feel like a fraud - my eldest left home in January (tears on my part!) and, though I keep asking, she hasn't given me any grandchildren, yet;-) But, yes, I think you're right. It is a lot different for us now, than in the past. I'm actually hoping to be more of a hands-on grandmother than my mother was, which makes sense as I was a stay-at-home mum, whereas she worked full-time until her 60s.

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