Dear Tweets

My backyard became a feast for no less than 20 - 30 Juncos, 3
Towhees, and 3 Varied Thrush this afternoon. It was a treat to watch
the Junco's flit back and forth among themselves pecking at whatever
they thought was good to eat on the ground about 2:30pm. Grey clouds
were moving in by 3PM and it seemed so much later in the evening. I
hope it doesn't snow, but it just might.

Yesterday evening there was a small flock of geese that flew over
quite low and were heading East. I wonder where they were headed.
I'll have to check my pond and lake maps for the nearest water body.
I imagine a few have iced over in the past few days.

The Varied Thrush are uncommon visitors here and as soon as I
attempted to snap a photo... I was spotted and they flew off!

[AND Thank you, C. Southwick for the wonderful idea. Wrapping a
hummingbird feeder in Christmas lights just might be the trick to
keeping the ice away! ]



Michelle
Yelm
Thurston County

yelmbackyard at gmail.com