Snow/sleet/slush-type stuff

Here are the snow pictures! It was mostly just slush but we still had lots of fun!


OK... so Bella didn't like it very much. She's trying to go back inside!


Earlier she had on the sweater I knitted for her but it got too wet for her to wear.


This snowball, immortalized in flight, ended its journey by splatting its way down the back of Tristan's pants. See the target?


Jazzie made a tiny snowman family. (She also made the hat that she's wearing!)



The daddy had to walk home from town. See his track?


It was a loonnnngg way!


And finally, click here to see a short clip of Jazzie, Tristan and Bella playing!

New birds... here they are!

Here are Birder (white-face grey) and Lily (with the orange cheeks) sharing a bowl of food. Lily is making that little sound. Click to see the video!


Lily getting scratches and then Cuckoo coming to get her scratches, too. Click to see the video!


You can barely see Twitter (pearl) in the back ground. She's not a people-person.

This is Jack and Elizabeth. They love each other. They were feeding seeds to each other and they came home with us so that nobody could buy just one of them. They are actually about half-way hand tamed! This is not a video, but you can click to see a bigger version of the picture.


Here's one last video but it's sideways. You can really hear Lily singing tho... so I'm posting it anyway. Click & listen!

More bluebirds

Bluebirds eating grub worms. Yuk.







The camera is going back on the tree at the salt block tomorrow. Maybe we can get some good pictures of something looking for food in the ice!

SWAPATORIUM: Ski Masks

This is a frightening bit of yarn work Click with caution. ;)

SWAPATORIUM: Ski Masks

WildView game camera

Tristan got a really cool motion-activated camera for Christmas. It's a weatherproof camera for taking pictures of deer, bears, moose, or anything else that wanders by. Last night we got this:



Tristan decided that we needed to get pictures of *something* so we mounted the camera in front of our bird feeder. He got a few good shots! Check out the bluebird, the purple finch, and the little woodpecker!





...and in this picture, you can just *barely* see the male bluebird's mate through the practically empty feeder. Jazzie & Tristan have been watching them come & go from one of the bluebird boxes on the treeline of the woods:


That's all for now. We'll mount the camera again in the morning & see what we get!