Wednesday, December 26, 2018

We wuz robbed!

Ice in the birdbath and frost on the mulch.  A pine and a myrtle warbler shared suet.  A Carolina wren also wanted suet. White throats enjoyed the variety of Christmas seeds.  The male Baltimore oriole wanted jelly.   A blue jay paused long enough for a picture.  A heron landed across the creek, behind vegetation. 

 A female oriole showed up in the afternoon.  Wrens and sparrows hung around and one sparrow even bathed, right in front of a squirrel.  A titmouse wanted to know what the fuss was about.  Nuthatches just wanted seeds.  The female oriole drank some water while a wren watched.  The male took the opportunity to eat some more jelly.  The downy woodpecker finally got a turn at the suet.  

I went elsewhere for a half hour and when I got back, a crow was prowling around and the entire plastic tub that held the bark butter, and jelly, was gone.  I put out the other one and this time fastened it to the glass dish with rubber bands.  That should keep it from being carried off.


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