Gus and I are warm and safe inside the house today after a blizzard blew in late last night. For now the snow seems to have stopped and the main road is pretty clear. Gus is still sick so I am on my own. We got about 18” of snow and I had to shovel a path to the back yard for the dog to relieve herself in. Since she is only about 8” tall the snow was just too deep for her to plow through, though she did try.
I was hoping the storm would blow in some rare birds but all I have seen all day are the usual suspects. I filled all the feeders and tossed seed out the windows for them. I built a fire on the hearth, made a cup of tea, and now I hope to finally have some time to go blogging! Merry Christmas everyone!
Lovely photos Kathie, not so good for the birds.
ReplyDeleteRoy, not so good for the birds but they are well fed at my house!
ReplyDeleteKathie, I love the blue jay, beautiful! Stay warm.
ReplyDeleteEverything looks beautiful and it is good that you and your family are safe.
ReplyDeleteKatnell, I have a fire burning in the fireplace so all is cozy! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteRuth, thank you!
Looks like a sweet treed neighborhood. The snow makes a great backdrop for the bird photos. Fire, tea and blogging sounds good. We may get snow on Wed. I'm NOT ready for that. Stay warm.
ReplyDeleteKathie! I am once again in Scottsdale AZ for the winter months! You are not here now!!
ReplyDeleteI was hoping to meet up w/ you!
I wish you all the best in the coming New Year! hugs from the desert.
Anna xo
Lovely photos Kathie! Love the Blue Jay & the sparrow eating snow. Sure glad it wasn't a white Christmas here in NM. Stay warm! Have a HAPPY NEW YEAR.
ReplyDeleteOh my. Eighteen inches of snow. I remember eight and 10 inches at a time when I lived in Spokane. Not particularly fond memories!
ReplyDeleteYuppers, a new blog. It's dedicated to my travels. Cover stuff other than birds, because it's mostly for my non-birding friends and relatives. But there's a full dose of birds too. After all that's the basic premise for all my travels. Also, it doesn't seem right to constantly cover everything but Nebraska on a blog that was started for Nebraska birding.
Thanks for stopping by both blogs!
The dark-eyed junco is hard to get the eye to shine but you managed.
ReplyDeleteHope your cute guy is feeling better! Happy holidays to you, Dear Kathie!
ReplyDeleteLooks like we had a similar day. I was sick, we had lots of snow too and had White-throated Sparrows at our feeder too. I couldn't manage to get a good picture of a junco though. Nice Junco picture -they turn out to dark when I do it. the jay and White-throats came out nice too.
ReplyDeleteWell, you had quite a lot of snow there didn't you Kathie? We just got a dusting this time round. My relatives 200 miles south of us got what you had. Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteOh my. Something tells me Maine and Minnesota are very much alike on the winter weather subject. I'm totally bummed out as returning from 10 days with the grandkids in Colorado I found all my feeders buried under two feet of snow. Worse all my regular birdies have been gone now for two days.
ReplyDeleteIt kinda' looks like that around here too. That top photo is wonderful. We got about a foot yesterday of snow and now we're getting wind.
ReplyDeleteHowdee Kathie..
ReplyDeleteI am catching up with my blog reading and here i am...late..You know how that goes..:)
What a snow storm...we were in Ct and didnt get as much as you did up there.
Hope all is going well!
Happy New Year to You and Gus!