It means even more to me than usual to have winged visitors to my yard. Because I’m currently stuck in a walking boot, I haven’t been venturing out much at all. So, today I dedicate my gratitude to these four birds, in the order in which they appeared.
First up, is a House Finch that immediately flew to the bath right after I’d cleaned and filled it this morning:
Moments later, this Red-breasted Nuthatch came for a drink:
Then another male House Finch posed in the maple tree:
And this afternoon, while taking a break from revisions, I spotted a radiant Woodhouse’s Scrub Jay:
It’s only Day 4 of my walking-boot-sentence and the Herman Munster clomp-clomp-clomp is already wearing thin. All gratitude for birds!
Tracy Abell 
It is almost time for us to put out the feeders! We are just waiting for the bears and skunks to go into hibernation.
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Hooray! We bring in the peanut feeder at night because of racoons, but otherwise we’re able to leave out. I hope many birds come right away!
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I thought we were the only ones who move the feeders in and out of the house!
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We leave the safflower and thistle seed feeders out, but after two racoons got in an ugly, loud fight over the peanut feeder, we bring that in!
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