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Currently at Toronto Pearson: -15. High today: -11. Probably the last day this winter we won't have gotten above -10.
Mrs. Cardinal, it turns out, was not eaten by a merlin:
I think I saw the merlin, or a merlin, again a few days ago, scaring the crap out of some pigeons up the street. Both Audubon and Wikipedia claim that Toronto is not part of the normal range of merlins, but geez, you'd think a merlin (aka "pigeon hawk") could get pretty fat living around here.
Mmm, deadly:
(Uh ... I'm sure he's fine. Apparently birds can eat baneberries with no ill effects, too.)
The chickadees have come back lately. It seems to be a lot of work for them to eat the safflower seeds--
--so I suspect they've come back because whatever else they've been eating is snowed under. About once a day a mob of pigeons shows up to try to peck each other to death on the feeder. They seem to just throw the safflower seeds back whole.
You may admire my bum:
So, yeah, got me a tripod and a telephoto lens. The latter, which would've been handy for the merlin, I picked up just a few days ago. Anyway, it is no longer so difficult to take pictures of the moon, although getting a decent moon and Jupiter in the same picture is still pretty difficult. Here's the rabbit head in the moon tonight:
Mrs. Cardinal, it turns out, was not eaten by a merlin:
I think I saw the merlin, or a merlin, again a few days ago, scaring the crap out of some pigeons up the street. Both Audubon and Wikipedia claim that Toronto is not part of the normal range of merlins, but geez, you'd think a merlin (aka "pigeon hawk") could get pretty fat living around here.
Mmm, deadly:
(Uh ... I'm sure he's fine. Apparently birds can eat baneberries with no ill effects, too.)
The chickadees have come back lately. It seems to be a lot of work for them to eat the safflower seeds--
--so I suspect they've come back because whatever else they've been eating is snowed under. About once a day a mob of pigeons shows up to try to peck each other to death on the feeder. They seem to just throw the safflower seeds back whole.
You may admire my bum:
So, yeah, got me a tripod and a telephoto lens. The latter, which would've been handy for the merlin, I picked up just a few days ago. Anyway, it is no longer so difficult to take pictures of the moon, although getting a decent moon and Jupiter in the same picture is still pretty difficult. Here's the rabbit head in the moon tonight:
