You can see how impatient I am about winter. Yesterday I noted winter was three weeks in–about a quarter of the way in. It has not been very cold. I only remember one extremely chilly day. I still want winter to go away. I never started a countdown to spring so early. Maybe, it is time to move to a warmer climate. I don’t tolerate winter so well anymore. It is really too early to start a countdown to spring. I am hoping winter will just go away. But it won’t. And somehow I have to stop counting the days and then weeks to spring. Spring is still too far off. And my countdown makes it worse. I simply do not like winter (particularly the cold) any longer. It is time to consider a move. Winter has become too hard to bear.
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I was thrilled: all of a sudden I saw five goldfinch at once, most of them on our finch feeder we keep nyger seed in. There was also one house finch. I always get mixed up between purple and house finches. I believe the purple finch is bigger.
It was one chilly day and I made sure there was plenty of seed on the ground for the birds to feed on. I saw the red bellied woodpecker come several times to our suet.
There was a period when the bird did not make an appearance for several months. Now every day I see it. I know the pickings must be slim for the birds. The ground is still snow covered.
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