Snow Pup-cubs and Snow Birds~

I wanted to thank everyone who wrote messages of encouragement this past week.  I read each one and took mental notes as well as a few written ones too.   We all need people who are positive and uplifting to get us on the right track to better health and life change, especially as we get older.  While I have a very good support system, not everyone knows how to translate their thoughts  into positive encouragement, but rather the opposite and all you want to do, is run and hide under the covers, though that is not my style.
Take this blog for instance, I have made so many friends and you all are so supportive, but my family very rarely sees my blog posts.  It is not that they do not care, they do, they just do not take the time.
Time...I am tardy every week in getting my visits made to many of the blogs that I keep up with and I have only the truth, life just gets busy.
We need to take time to encourage as often as we can, it does make a difference!
Thanking you all again so much for everything.
We got our first snow, just at 3" and it was bitter cold 9' and so I took the photos of birds through the window, looking out into the side garden.
Have a wonderfully blessed week~

Remember to double click on the first image, to view a larger slideshow presentation after you have read the narratives~

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Wild Bird Wednesday

Above, the opening selection is of a Red-Bellied Woodpecker.  Beauties and also quite naughty to cedar wood homes, likes ours.

Below is a male Cardinal.  They are the state of Kentucky bird~

Mourning Dove~

Black Capped Chickadee~

Tufted Titmouse~

Large buck walking in my back yard after having eaten corn I place in trays. He was limping.  Hopefully he will heal and be OK~

Downy Woodpecker~

White-throated Sparrow~

~These fun pup-cubs~

White-throated Sparrow trying to stay warm~

Snow Birds Aplenty, Post 1 of 2~

I so hope that you all will not mind.  I am going to be giving a double dose of Snow birds this week.  Since we have been cooped up from the cold for days now, I have taken oodles and oodles of images, prepared them for sharing, and if I don't get snow birds out soon, it shall be Spring.  

This shall be 1 of 2 

For those who have followed my updates for travel...would you believe...2 days ago, I got a cell phone message, a text message and an e-mail alerting me to the fact that my train was broken down and they had no train to take the route.  SO, I do not fly any longer due to my ears being super sensitive, but I am going to fly anyway.  First the bad weather and illness and now an Amtrak cancellation and I need to get to my daughter and spend some time with her and her husby.  Hoping that the plane flight goes without a hitch~

Remember to double click on the first image, to view a larger slide show presentation after you have read the narratives~

I will be linking up with Judith for:

www.lavendercottagegardening.com

Mosaic Monday

&

Stewart for:

   http://paying-ready-attention-gallery.blogspot.com.au/

Wild Bird Wednesday

We continue to have many Cardinals coming to the feeders every day.  They make the dull gray days, more cheerful with their colour and song~

Sometimes when you purchase feeders, they just do not do their job and the one the Carolina Wren is eating from was one of them.  I turned it into a suet feeder and it does fine now~

Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers, are one of my favorite garden visitors.  They have been enjoying the dried meal worm and nut pellets from the feeder below~

A Tufted Titmouse, possibly a male was not happy seeing it's reflection in the yard globe~

The Eastern Towhees hidden in brambles and shrubs most of the warmer months are a delight coming to the feeding stations all Winter.  

A female and male Downy Woodpecker, have made their space in the garden scene too~

Last year I had 2 Fox Sparrows the whole Winter.  This year, so far only one and I always enjoy them, since they are particularly rare visitors to Tingsgrove~

White-throated Sparrows are another favorite Winter visitor and we have lots of them around this season~

White-breasted Nuthatch and American Goldfinches have made their way, but not in any great numbers~

Sparrows, so many different ones and this little one has been spending a lot of time along side the Fox Sparrow, which kind of threw me a bit, as they do look a wee bit alike.  

It had a tiny seed upon it's beak~

Oh and of course, sometimes they come here as well, not always, but in these harsh cold days, they arrive, the European Starlings~

For as many Blue Jays that are in this area, we have not had very many visiting our feeders, and not sure why.  They are invited to partake too~