Little Things Make All the Difference

-Clear and very cold this AM...around 20 F
- Late yesterday...I found a Black-Capped Chickadee stuck inside one of my feeders (see photo for a shot of this exhausted avia).
- 30 minutes and some tool work later, the bird was set free...and what appeared to be the same bird and some of its friends, were back this AM.
- Finally, as noted the Chickadees and Titmice are becoming daily visitors.
- Also, a Hairy Woodpecker was on the suet this AM, as well as the Chickadees.
- Eleven Goldfinches, Mourning Doves, and the customary Nuthatches all in evidence today.
- The haunting call of the Barred Owl heard several times last night from the forest behind the cabin. Last week I heard the call for the first time since last spring.
- A Belted Kingfisher has so far spent the winter on Lake George, about 2 miles east of my cabin.
- No deer today or yesterday...but a sunrise walker may have disturbed their routine.