Siskinfinchpolls

It’s early morning, 26 below outside but warming up. Our digital thermometer remembers how cold it was (or how hot) in the past 24 hours. Last night the low temperature reading was 31 below. Someone is going to have to go out and fill the bird feeders as we'll have a rather hungry crowd later this a.m. Lin says that someone hung the finch feeder just out of her reach so I guess the someone filling the feeders will be me!

The birds are … grateful and enjoying our bounty. Yesterday we looked out the window and there were three jays on the garbage can corn feeder, three grosbeaks on the sunflower seed feeder, six siskinfinchpolls (pine siskins, assorted purple or gold finches and red polls – it’s really hard to tell them apart so we've settled on calling them siskinfinchpolls) on the thistle feeder, and a chickadee and a nuthatch on the millet seed feeder. On the ground underneath the feeders were more siskinfinchpolls and grosbeaks than we wanted to count! We have entirely too many dependents all of a sudden!