Yard Pictures: Snow in South Lot
Jan. 21st, 2024 11:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysabetwordsmithHere are some pictures of my yard from Friday, January 21, 2024 when it snowed. This is the south lot.
This is the view from the east yard looking south into the south lot. Toward the right is the well cap with its altar bench.
The upside-down suet feeder hangs in the birdgift tree. I start it out hanging sideways like this. When the sparrows and/or starlings start hogging it, then it tilt it at an angle and eventually with the roof on top. Woodpeckers and other clinging birds can easily eat that way. A few sparrows figure out how to snatch a bite or two, but they can't just hang on and stuff their faces. I haven't seen any downy woodpeckers for a few months, but we usually have some.
The fly-through feeder hangs in the apricot tree. It holds songbird blend birdseed which is mostly black oil sunflower seed, some safflower seed, a few peanut pieces, and bits of dried fruit. Cardinals, sparrows, mourning doves, and dark-eyed juncos all love this. I mostly have house sparrows and song sparrows, occasionally chipping sparrows or white-crowned sparrows.
These are bird tracks in snow, probably sparrow tracks.
This is a long view of the south lot, looking west, with the septic garden.
Snow has collected in small drifts around a big fallen branch.
Shadows from the trees above fall across the snow. I like taking sculptural pictures like this.
These ripples in snow are almost straight.
These ripples make chevrons.
This low drift lies near the road.
This is the view from the east yard looking south into the south lot. Toward the right is the well cap with its altar bench.
The upside-down suet feeder hangs in the birdgift tree. I start it out hanging sideways like this. When the sparrows and/or starlings start hogging it, then it tilt it at an angle and eventually with the roof on top. Woodpeckers and other clinging birds can easily eat that way. A few sparrows figure out how to snatch a bite or two, but they can't just hang on and stuff their faces. I haven't seen any downy woodpeckers for a few months, but we usually have some.
The fly-through feeder hangs in the apricot tree. It holds songbird blend birdseed which is mostly black oil sunflower seed, some safflower seed, a few peanut pieces, and bits of dried fruit. Cardinals, sparrows, mourning doves, and dark-eyed juncos all love this. I mostly have house sparrows and song sparrows, occasionally chipping sparrows or white-crowned sparrows.
These are bird tracks in snow, probably sparrow tracks.
This is a long view of the south lot, looking west, with the septic garden.
Snow has collected in small drifts around a big fallen branch.
Shadows from the trees above fall across the snow. I like taking sculptural pictures like this.
These ripples in snow are almost straight.
These ripples make chevrons.
This low drift lies near the road.
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Date: 2024-01-22 10:15 am (UTC)Thank you!
Date: 2024-01-22 10:23 am (UTC)