Sunday Safari

The wind shifted to the south. Temperatures began to rise.

I went outside to spend one on one time with the birds.

                                     The male Downy Woodpecker stays near the suet cakes.

There are many female Cardinals in the trees and bushes.
A few will come to the deck while I am sitting quietly reading my book.

I am adding an Asian influence to my home.

The Carolina Wrens

and the Ruby Crowned Kinglets are coming to the suet cakes together.

The sun was warm but the wind was cold.

When a gust blew across the snow I shivered.

 The little Chick-a-dees struggled in the wind.

The big birds could easily manage the gusts.

The Yellow-shafted Flicker had no trouble with the suet cakes in the window boxes.

There are six Blue Jays in the gardens today.

They have eaten all the acorns we saved for them.

I am putting peanuts out now.

There is harmony in the gardens.

It is cold.

It is January in the mid-west.

The wind finally sent me inside.

The tulips are beginning to bud in my indoor garden.

My Mother-in law gave me a butterfly nectar flower for my birthday.

It is in one of the tulip gardens.

A Monarch, that did not make migration, reminds me of the beauty of the butterflies.

My husband showed me a Cob Web Weaver he found in his home office.

I watched her spin a cob web.

I saw her silk come out of her spinnets.

It is snowy.

We are staying home.

We are having fun.

Happy Sunday Safari.

I hope you also are having Winter fun.