Bird Feeders and Morning Coffee
I was up working until about 12:30 AM. It’s cold and cloudy this morning. Sam is asleep and I’m having a quiet cup of coffee and watching birds on my feeders. It just occurred to me that it has been so dry they probably aren’t able to find a lot of the seeds that they normally eat. That’s probably why my feeders have been so busy this year. As I write to you I have two flickers, blue jays, chickadees, a cardinal and assorted house finches swirling around. The flickers are not frequent visitors. I think they like the peanuts. Oh and there is the squirrel named
‘Squirrely’ by Sam. We, and by we I mean me, raised Squirrely after his mother got squashed in the road. I raised a couple of squirrels when I was a kid and I thought it would be good to help connect Sam a bit more with nature so I succumbed to his begging and promises to take care of the baby squirrel and let him keep it. Sam was interested in the squirrel for about two hours and I ended up feeding Squirrely 5 or 6 times a day with warm puppy formula until he was weened. Then I moved his cage outside and nailed it up in a tree and made sure he had food for a while. Now he lives in our back yard. He’ll still take peanuts from my hand with a bit a patience.
