It's a Birds Life

This morning when I went outside it reminded me of a scene from that old horror movie; The Birds. There were literally thousands of birds in our yard. There were blue jays, cardinals, finches, ladder back's and some things that I didn't recognize. However cow birds made up the majority. Well I don't discriminate when it comes to feeding birds so I filled the feeder and let them have at it.

Now you would think that birds would be afraid to come around here because we have cats. However out of the 4 cats that we have, only one likes to get birds and the others are more like this one:

"Please wake me when it is time to eat."

So here are some of the other birds that were in the yard this morning.

"Do you mind. We are trying to eat here."

This cardinal was acting shy. He is in the previous picture but he is hiding.

This is inside my greenhouse. I was going to try to get a picture of the resident Carolina Wren but he too left before I could take the photo.

Yes we have peppers in January. Eat your heart out or should I say eat your stomach linning out. These are supposed to be really hot and I haven't had the guts (nice pun) to try one yet.

This is called Butterfly weed and the Monarchs love it.

We don't have a problem with bugs this time of year but we do have a problem with other plant eaters. These tracks were in my front yard, not 10 feet from my house. Brave little things aren't they.

This pear tree thinks it is spring. It looks like the freeze last night didn't hurt it.

And finally one of our camelia's is in full bloom. You gotta love the south.

Have a great weekend. I am off to work in the greenhouse.

Greg