Birds at the Bird Feeders

       Hi everyone. It's almost the weekend again. Weeks go way too fast don't they?  

      It's been cold in so many places this week, including in my area, but the good news is the sun has been shining, the days are noticeably longer, and we've gone more than 5 days now without needing to shovel.  Plus, the winds that were crazy early in the week have gone, so now that they have calmed down I can even hear a bird chirp on occasion. 😀❤👍

      This week has been fairly uneventful except for running errands, but what has been eventful (in a small but making me happy way)  are all the birds at my bird feeders.  Today's faces are for Nicole's Friday Face Off.  I'm also linking up to Gillena's Friday Lunch Break.

      You'll have to excuse my photos since if I step outside all the birds fly off. These have been taken  through the window.

     I'm very excited about the bluebirds. Two years ago I only rarely saw any, and then I put out meal worms for them to eat and a bluebird box for nesting.  This winter I have a whole mini flock who are around every day.

    A few weeks ago in my book post I wrote about Mozart's Starling, a book about (obviously 😏) starlings. At the time I said I only occasionally saw them. Well since then they have also found the meal worm food. And sometimes (although not in this photo) I get about a dozen of them. I can see why people complain about them because the meal worm disappears quickly when they are around.  However, they need to eat too.

And the other day I saw a blue jay. I hear them often but I haven't seen one for a while.

   I never seem to have my camera or my phone on me to get a photo of the pair of cardinals that regularly visit, and I also should mention the chickadees, nuthatches and the various woodpeckers that didn't  make it in any photos either. 😏

   However, this smartie-pants squirrel has figured out how to avoid the baffle on the bird feeder pole by  jumping off the deck directly onto the bird feeder. 

He didn't like me looking at him so he turned around.

      And he knows I'm still looking at him in this (above) photo. After about 30 seconds he went back to eating and forgot about me being there. 

     I'd love to move the chair that the squirrel ricochets off of to get onto the feeder, but since my husband has yet to get the railing up on the deck and  since  I have a dog who is blind, the chair has to stay there. It makes a good wall so  Miss Maddie doesn't accidentally walk off the deck.  I  don't want her to fall and injure herself. 

     I'm going to finish off this post with a few drifting snow photos. I think it looks kind of cool.

Have a great Friday and weekend ahead!