What is your weather today?

[dannyd]

Blue skies and 62.

 

[dannyd]

Coldest place I have ever been is West Florida; lab rat 40 years ago 55 below.

 

[L Ross]

The birds need replenishment 3X's a day when it's cold like this. The only way they can turn up the thermostat is with food.

 

[Winelover]

You need a bigger feeder. The two I have, are similar design but the older one holds twice as much. I can get by filling the bigger one up about every other week.

 

[L Ross]

You need a bigger feeder. The two I have, are similar design but the older one holds twice as much. I can get by filling the bigger one up about every other week.

I mostly feed on the ground. That's about a 7' oval under the maple tree. I scatter cracked corn on the driveway for about 20', they get gravel there too for grit. I do have a hanging sunflower seed feeder that holds about two gallons for chickadees and Titmice. The chickadees come and go from before sunrise until after sunset. Their little furnaces have tiny fireboxes.

 

[RicinYakima]

49 degrees just now, wind blowing 40 with gust to 52. Has melted, or condensed, about the top six inches of snow out of the 19.3 inches we got. Back down into the 20's by 1800 and the Chinook blows out.

 

[fiver]

see yesterday... LOL
it's the mid winter thaw apparently, you know till tomorrow.

 

[JWFilips]

Woke up to 3 " on the ground...Most so far this winter which is very unusual! Should be a bunch more by now
11 Degs tomorrow morning

 

[Winelover]

I mostly feed on the ground.

I won't do ground feeding. Attracts vermin, like coons and possum. Enough falls on ground for the doves and other ground feeders.

 

[Rick H]

Woke up and its 10*F and calm. Weatherman says it is warming and we are getting rain this evening.....after a bout of snow/sleet/ice. I think my sinuses are going to explode.

 

[L Ross]

I won't do ground feeding. Attracts vermin, like coons and possum. Enough falls on ground for the doves and other ground feeders.

I have such a flock of ground feeders I go through approximately 2 quarts of shelled corn, oil sun flower, Niger thistle, cracked corn, and peanuts per day. I typically feed just before dawn, around noon, and around 4 pm. Mostly jays, cardinals, juncoes, and mourning doves with a smattering of others.

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

12/13° slight wind. Forcast ta be low single digits Tuesday am...

 

[Rick]

I've a simple philosophy on bird feeders. They did just fine for many thousands of years before I came along, they will continue to do fine without me feeding them. See? Simple huh?

 

[Winelover]

Use to feed thistle, in Michigan. Goldfinches loved it. Here, they just tossed it on the ground...........so I quit and switched to black oiler sunflowers, exclusively. The inexpensive mixed seed attracts non desirable birds like Starlings and Cowbirds.

 

[Winelover]

Another colorful sunset, last evening.

 

[L Ross]

Use to feed thistle, in Michigan. Goldfinches loved it. Here, they just tossed it on the ground...........so I quit and switched to black oiler sunflowers, exclusively. The inexpensive mixed seed attracts non desirable birds like Starlings and Cowbirds.

Because we do not farm and our nearest neighbor is well over a half mile away, we don't have any sh!t birds like English Sparrows, Starlings etc. Plus we have excellent habitat surrounding our yard, ever greens, low brush, hardwoods, prairie, and a free flowing spring.

 

[Winelover]

Haven't seen a English sparrow since I left Michigan. Starlings and Cowbirds show up on occasion but don't linger on my property. See hoards of Starlings, sitting on electric lines, on my way to town. Other than small food plots, I haven't seen any type of food crops around here. Occasional hay field to support the beef raised by a few ranchers.

 

[farmboy]

Winter has finally arrived here. It's 8* and bright sunlight. About 2" of fluff. No critters in sight and no tracks. Sure is nice to look out the window and see the fields in full sunlight...that's why I built here. I used to live in a college town and got really tired of seeing someone else's kids in my yard.

 

[Brad]

We throw old bread and such put back for the wildlife. Imagine the shock when I saw this 15’ up a tree. Yes, that is a bagel.

We must have some muscular squirrels.

 

[Winelover]

I've seen fox squirrels pick up whole apples, take them into a tree and munch on them. Mostly, have the smaller grays, here. We throw fruit slices (cocktail remnants), off the back porch. The grays come along and eat the pulp but not the rind.