Posted on 12/11/2021 6:40:16 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
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Gonna be some people in several states cleaning up their gardens, yards, fixing damage to houses from tornado damage.
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A common winter birding misconception is that there are few birds to enjoy during the coldest months. In fact, many beautiful and unusual birds are eager to visit feeders in the winter because of scarce food supplies. There are so many species of birds you can spot in the winter. From the Bohemian Waxwing to the Snow Bunting, you have your pick of majestic birds to look for in freezing temperatures. These 12 birds are just a few you might find at your feeders in the winter, if you know how to attract them and what winter foods to offer for a tasty and nutritious treat.
Nice summary at the link of all the winter birds:
https://www.thespruce.com/winter-bird-photo-gallery-4122079
Birding by Region of the USA, Canada, Alaska, Hawaii and Internationally:
https://www.birdwatchersdigest.com/bwdsite/explore/regions.php
How did you fare?
Did you see anything or have any tornado or storm damage?
Glad you are still with us.
(The resource area is posted at the end of the the July 3-6 Gardening Thread beginning after post 112!)
One of the best perks of gardening is not only attracting birds (and bees) to our yards but getting to see them as well.
I was thinking I could do a fall yard clean-up all by my little self - and then realized the job was way too big for me. Called a service and it took six guy two full days to trim back my trees, cut back hedges and clean up the fallen leaves.
Meanwhile, the last of my roses!
This one is a mini rose:
This one just got cut back, will see it again around March:
My helper in his new Christmas sweater, ready for Santa to fill up his stocking:
I haven’t even been outside yet or gone for a ride but the wind never got worse than your average thunderstorm and looking out the windows, I don’t see anything out of place. We lost electric for all of 5 seconds last night but that was it.
We have rough terrain here that tends to break up organized weather patterns so the storm line I saw on the radar seemed to part for us on approach and I’ve seen it happen before.
30 miles North or South gets flatter and in both directions, they announced tornado warnings while we stayed under a tornado watch. We’ve had a few small twisters hit around here but they don’t last long and only hit a small area, usually forest because it’s mostly forest here.
We don’t have a storm shelter and our place is a stick frame pole bldng so our tornado plan is to get into a vehicle and drive into a ditch/gully on the property. That will make the roof of the car even with the high ground on either wide of us which should keep the car/truck from being picked up. I’ve got a spot picked out for a root cellar. Guess I’ll work on that over winter.
Good Morning! :-)
Yes, it looked just awful down south!
We missed it all only by about 10 miles. Tons of snow northwest of us; we got rain yesterday and last night, a dusting of snow this morning, no ice, thank goodness, and now the sun is shining.
My friends, ‘Up Nort’ have their snowblowers at the ready!
Thanks for the pictures - they made me smile. Your little doggie is so CUTE! I have a friend that dresses her dog up in all sorts of goofy costumes - it’s pretty amusing and the dog doesn’t seem to mind, LOL! She also paints her nails!
If you don’t want the expense of Niger seed, use sunflower chips - they love those, too. BUT, you’ll need a platform or open feeder because those small holes in Finch Feeders are too small. I have a Niger mix I got from a friend, and when that’s gone, I’ll just be serving the sunflower chips the rest of the season. All the little birds seem to like them, and no waste. (I mix the chips with Black Oil Sunflower Seed for everyone else.)
Thanks, Pete!
Lisa’s Famous Potato Soup
This has nothing to do with birds, but it involves home-grown potatoes, so there’s that! Try this recipe. It’s Da Bomb! I’m going to make it tomorrow and we’ll enjoy it before the Packer Game tomorrow evening. Only substitution I make is using homemade chicken stock because I can’t serve a whole chicken WITHOUT making some!
Good morning, from balmy Buford, Georgia, where it is serious tornado weather. I love this weather!
It was a mostly warm and dry week here in Central Missouri. Things changed yesterday with that cold front that rolled through. Lots of rain and wind, but thankfully no twisters in the immediate area.
No gardening this weekend. Hope to get some work done on Mr. Clarence. My machinist buddy got the piston out of the lift cylinder a couple weeks ago, so I’m ready to start putting the hydraulic system back together.
Mrs. Augie’s RAV4 was declared a total loss. She spent quite a bit of time car shopping and finally picked a ‘22 model Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross. We’re heading to town later today to finish up the paperwork on that and bring it home. We weren’t planning to replace the RAV until I was finished paying off the note on the RAM I bought last winter, but we can’t get by with only one vehicle so really didn’t have a choice. Would have preferred to buy used, but it’s virtually impossible to find a good one with low miles that’s worth the money.
The midwest and NYS and the northeast are the same.
Yeah, in the NorthEast we refer to them as the :" Snow & Weather beaters " vehicle;
normally they go for a slight premium, but this year, not so much 'slight' (!!).
Forbes says the price for 'used cars' this year is over 30% due to the 'chip shortage' for newer vehicles;
this was echoed by Tucker Carlson last night at 32 % increase in price.
There are a lot of vacancies on car lots today; both "new" and "used car" lots.
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