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[cimorene]

It's been cold, -11 to -16° C (3-12° F), for a week now, and the bird feeders are extremely active. We have a seed feeder hanging in the front apple tree with peanuts, sunflower seeds, oats, raisins, and dried worms in it, and a ball feeder down in the garden with those lard balls full of seed, plus a giant pinecone coated in lard and seeds back in the other apple tree. There are more birds every day! Jackdaws and sometimes magpies at the ball feeder, and a mixed flock of little birds with great tits and blue tits and some blackbirds frequently at the seed feeder. But the bullfinches have been showing up there more and more too, and now there's a whole flock of them and a European greenfinch mixed in. Love those guys.

Comments

[princessofgeeks]

wonderful!

[cimorene]

Wax got out the binoculars and compared guys on Wikipedia and now she thinks it was a make green siskin, not a finch. Lovely to see the occasional rarer visitor!