@gingerw Your comment has placed a smile on my entire well-being. Also @merpreb for her bird identification skills. More snow moving in for this neck of the woods. Have a supply of suet for my little chickadees, etc.

@merpreb Raptors are my favorites!! Love the Cornell site!!

@parus , simply fascinating! Do you ever color them?

@merpreb , the light I’ve been using for years is called “Lite Book” and is about 5” x 5”. In all these years, I’ve never had a problem with it bothering my eyes. Just research before you buy one!

@becsbuddy– Thank you. I did research and bought one and used it for the first time and this AM for the second time. I love it and I have not had any eye problem either.

@becsbuddy No but have thought about it.

@parus Love the drawing I fed all kinds of birds even the squirrels came to eat Bluebirds my little chickedees,bluejays humming birds I had a nest if wrens one time in my treehouse that I hung I miss the birds from back east different ones here I fed the pheasants ,turkey and squarils by putting ear of corn on a peg in the ground in winter they loved it

@parus here,s my latest

@lioness– Love it. Good for you! Thank you for sharing. Art is so personal.

@merpreb Glad you liked it , I'm working on 2 Penquins now

@gingerw When my husband put the garden to sleep for the winter he put rye down the Deer loved it we use to watch them out our kitchen window. Just remembered this

@lioness Before I moved here, I kept a bird feeder hung where it was easy to see. Blue jays, doves, pigeons, starlings all came around. So did the hawks when they realized they might get an easy snack. The rats started showing up to scavage for leftovers. So, had to pull the feeder out. Did also get squirrels. The blue jays learned to come to the sliding door and beg for peanuts in the shell, which they buried in the plants' pots ;))
Ginger