Icicles

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The slate-colored junco, currently our most common backyard bird (due to this year’s dramatic reduction of the local goldfinch population). I was actually trying for a shot of the two bluebirds which have been frequenting this feeder over the last few days. We’ve also had a male/female pair of cardinals paying alternate visits, and I was wondering whether the icicles would grow long enough to deter them.

Snow day

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5½” on the patio table, and 14F at 7am. By 9am the sun started to poke through the clouds, and a flock of goldfinches were jockying for position on the feeder. Then we spotted this stranger — the female bluebird maybe?