Such a pretty bird.

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.
Too funny!
A couple of grosbeaks were trying to eat the frozen apples, left on this tree.
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…
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
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.
She looks a bit perplexed.
She was also much harder to get pictures of! The male, on the other hand, was more co-operative.