We woke up today to a thick layer of drifted snow everywhere– driveway, patio, against the garage… So what does my wonderful husband shovel out first?  The bird feeding area.  He just couldn’t stand eating his own breakfast while the birds couldn’t get to theirs. 

Good news in that area: the red winged blackbirds are back!  They always mean that spring is coming.  Everyone thinks it’s the robin that marks the coming of spring, but they actually spend the winter in the woods, while the blackbirds migrate and return about this time every year.   They’ll become a pest after a while as they increase in number and gobble up all the bird seed, but for a while at least, they are a welcome sight!

Written by Lynn on the slope of Teasel Hill where the snow has begun to melt a little.