During our recent 'ice-olation' - one of the 'get busy' activities we did was to feed the birds. We were sitting at the table eating breakfast and talked about how the little birds must be so cold. I remembered that I had some birdseed in the garage left over and decided to scatter it around the iced over yard. We also put seed on the patio to lure the birds in closer so we could watch from the window. We then parked our chairs up against the windows and back glass door and waited. As soon as the birds realized there was birdseed here they began to come in large groups. I was so happy to see that this was not the typical 'grackle' or black bird (not sure if grackle is right - that comes from a texas guy that used to live here and he had odd pronounciation sometimes - ha). Anyways, it was nice to see more of the song birds and small finches...very pretty to watch and entertaining for the kids. I grabbed my camera and shot these pictures thru the window...
Katherine drawing hearts and flowers in the fog she created having her nose pressed up against the window!! Priceless.
Dove
Is this a sparrow?
I believe these birds were very grateful for our boredom today!
They stayed around a long time, came up close where we could watch them, they looked towards the camera and gave great poses...I believe these little birdies were saying THANK YOU!!
And I am thankful for them today too. The memories of these moments are treasures in my heart.
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