Last Saturday or so was the beginning of the Audubon Christmas bird count. More or less coincidently, I started tossing out a little bird food on the patio. Usually I do that a little earlier, but due to global warming and the fact that Atlanta and Long Island have been hogging all our snow, I haven't gotten around to it before now. In the afternoon some birds appeared, most were the usual juncos, some were English sparrows, one chickadee and some crows in the tall trees in the northeast corner of the lot. Those did not come to the patio....