Grab hold!

The larger grosbeaks may have trouble using the hanging feeder, but that doesn’t stop them from trying!

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They have just barely enough room for them to perch at the corners, then have to twist to be able to reach the seed before having to drop off and fly away.

 

 

Good Morning

Just a few shots to share with you this morning.

I was going to say I caught The Outsider, mid-meow, as I was feeding the outside cats this morning, but he wasn’t actually meowing when I took this shot.

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Too funny!

A couple of grosbeaks were trying to eat the frozen apples, left on this tree.

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These apples won’t fall, even while being pecked apart by birds.  No wonder I wasn’t able to knock down any more of them for the deer.

While I was taking this picture, I suddenly had a cat climbing up my front.  Beep Beep decided that I needed to carry her while I was doing my rounds.  She did let me put her onto a post, for a bit…

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Just a bit.  Then she jumped back on me, as soon as I got close enough!

While taking the photo, I realized why she always has one paw up like that.  There isn’t enough room on the top of the post for all 4 paws!

She was aggressively cuddly this morning. :-D

We were able to make a trip into the city this morning, to finally visit my FIL.  It’s been a while since my husband was up to the trip.  The girls and I will need to head into the city again, soon – unusual for us to go that often, but we will be doing a fair bit of running around to various places on our next trip, in preparation for Christmas.

I’ll have to remember to pick up more cat kibble.  It’s been less than a week, and we’re already finishing off one big bag!

Okay; so maybe we’re feeding a few more cats than last winter (13, compared to the 7 or 8 before).

And maybe we’re being a bit more generous on the quantities…

We are such sucks! :-D

The Re-Farmer

The grosbeaks are back

I had started to see the pine grosbeaks in some of our crab apple and ornamental apple trees.  Once I picked up the the new birdseed, we’ve started to see them at the feeder.  Especially this lovely couple.

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She looks a bit perplexed.

She was also much harder to get pictures of!  The male, on the other hand, was more co-operative.

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