On the brighter side
Feb. 9th, 2013 05:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cincinnatus_c
Currently at Toronto Pearson: -5. High today: -4.
The view out one of the solarium windows yesterday--
--and today:
That smallish-for-a-hawk-like-bird hawk-like-bird--I'm pretty sure it's a merlin--sat there motionless for so long before spreading its tail that I was starting to think it was a decoy the cinder-block-house people had tied to the tree to scare pigeons away. After stretching and scratching itself for a bit, off it went:
Glad to see Mr. Cardinal back in his feeder-watching bush out there. Haven't seen Mrs. Cardinal today, but she generally makes herself scarce anyway, apart from when she's busy chasing sparrows away from the feeder. (Speaking of which: the sparrows have not entirely, but have very largely, given up throwing my safflower seeds on the ground, and, rather shockingly, the squirrels have still failed to identify them as food. So at this point I'm going to call safflower seeds a smashing success.)
Snowflower:
Looks like something very small dug itself down into this little hole, and back out again:
The view out one of the solarium windows yesterday--
--and today:
That smallish-for-a-hawk-like-bird hawk-like-bird--I'm pretty sure it's a merlin--sat there motionless for so long before spreading its tail that I was starting to think it was a decoy the cinder-block-house people had tied to the tree to scare pigeons away. After stretching and scratching itself for a bit, off it went:
Glad to see Mr. Cardinal back in his feeder-watching bush out there. Haven't seen Mrs. Cardinal today, but she generally makes herself scarce anyway, apart from when she's busy chasing sparrows away from the feeder. (Speaking of which: the sparrows have not entirely, but have very largely, given up throwing my safflower seeds on the ground, and, rather shockingly, the squirrels have still failed to identify them as food. So at this point I'm going to call safflower seeds a smashing success.)
Snowflower:
Looks like something very small dug itself down into this little hole, and back out again:
