It’s the first morning of the Great Backyard Bird Count and I am recovering from the flu. I still feel awful but I was up with the dawn to start counting birds. I would say I was up with the sun, but today it is raining here and sometimes it is mixed with snow! All the birds look bedraggled and they are seeking shelter wherever they can get it. A house finch is riding the ceiling fan like a merry-go-round, but at least it is dry!
A female hummingbird has chosen my ballerina sculpture as her refuge.
One poor mourning dove just braces itself against the downpour.
But when I first opened the shutters
this morning look what I found feeding from the quailblock! This jackrabbit forgot it’s suppose to wear feathers to dinner!
