Opposite this end is where I throw out seed, stale bread & cookies, etc. and today I've had a neat little visitor: A Downy Woodpecker! He's been here before, just not often. He's tiny, about 5" (adult males get to be about 6"). The larger Hairy Woodpecker (10" or so) is around on the property by the creek side & doesn't come over back here as far as I can tell.
We may have had an inch of snow here and I'm being generous at that! Everything was coated with a thin layer of ice this morning as well. Hubby was morw disgruntled about the weather yesterday than I was! He was going to go hunting but when they predicted 8" for us, he decided not to go since he didn't want to come home from hunting and have to go strait to snowblowing & salting. Ah well.
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I love the little Christmas tree nook you have set up for the birds. That's great! We have a woodpecker behind our house too. And a family of owls. We hear them hooting at night.
Sadly, I still have our (artificial) Christmas tree up in our living room. It's a matter of getting all of the boxes out of the attic again. Hopefully, next weekend! :)
G, don't rush my 2009! I'm not ready for 2008 to be over already!
Holli, thanks and you can send your snow my way any time! (Just don't send it this way once we (hopefully) move out of state! It'll be my luck that THAT'S when it will snow here).
I think when you "give back" you've got to try & do it on all levels; like this with repurposing the Christmas tree & putting out seed, using reusable totes for groceries, recycling and repurposing everything you possibly can, cooking with fresh & less preserved ingriedients, walking instead of driving when possible, gardening without chemicals...