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| A Hawk |
Bird watching is what has kept me sane the past few winters.
Indiana has
been quite snowy and at times frigid cold. We typically have doves, snowbirds,
sparrows, nuthatches and on occasion a couple of cardinals. It is hard to miss
those bright red cardinals against the white snow.
Although the hawk does not eat the seeds from the feeders,
we still like seeing the bird of his size come to visit. Last year he or she
set in the blue spruce tree and this year I have seen it more in the front yard
scoping out the empty field across the road.
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| Male Cardinal |
This winter, we have been blessed with red finches, an
abundance of red finches. I wondered what location has temperatures and winter
conditions worse than we have that the red finches would migrate here.
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| Grey Squirrel enjoying sunflower seeds |
I would say the most popular in all our feeders is the black
oil sunflower seed; even the squirrel found them and decided to set in the
feeder and enjoy them. We have already purchased two 50 lb bags from the Big R store to keep the
eight feeders full.
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| Red finch on gourd feeder |
Do you enjoy bird watching and feeding them? What variety of
birds do you see in the winter and what is their favorite food?
