Hello GPODers!
A number of weeks in the past we noticed Caroline Blais’ backyard in Belwood, Ontario, Canada throughout a snowstorm (Caroline’s Snow Day in Ontario). Regardless of the frigid temperatures and plenty of snow flying, Caroline was in a position to seize some nice photographs of birds and squirrels discovering meals and shelter in her beds. At this time, we return to Caroline’s backyard to see how her panorama dealt with a really snow January.
Good morning, it has been a really snowy January in our zone 5 backyard exterior of Fergus, Ontario Canada.
I’m sharing a number of pictures with you and hope to turn out to be a daily contributor!
We used a thrifted pine cone wreath as a fowl feeder and crammed the cones with a mixture of suet and fowl seed. We hung the wreath on a wood gate the place I may view the exercise from the kitchen window. After a number of days the wreath disappeared (thieving squirrels maybe?)… however we discovered it and hung it horizontally from a tree. We replenish the suet each couple of days.
Thanks and have an excellent day!
Caroline Blais
This Canadian backyard is wanting appropriately coated in a thick blanket of snow. Caroline expressed her wish to contribute commonly, and I’m actually hoping she continues to wish to share. I’m already itching to see what this view appears to be like like in hotter and extra colourful seasons!
It doesn’t appear to be anybody goes to be sitting and having fun with the surroundings any time quickly! Nevertheless, these double Adirondack chairs enable for a bit little bit of cheerful yellow to peek out from the snow and assist create some fairly cool kinds within the giant drifts.
An American Pink squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) visits Caroline and enjoys the abundance of meals that she offers for native wildlife by means of winter. These squirrels will be discovered all through North America, and primarily feed on the seeds and cones of evergreen bushes.
Fortunately for squirrels and birds there are many evergreens in Caroline’s backyard, which she additionally dietary supplements with numerous extra seed in feeders and wreaths. Together with the advantages to wildlife, these evergreens present much more construction for the snow to create its art work on.
And right here is the pinecone wreath that Caroline mentions on the high of this submit. Whereas the wreath would have been a stunning piece of decor as is, I like that she selected so as to add some seeds and suet for the birds that desperately want it throughout the harsh Canadian winter. Right here, a good looking feminine bushy woodpecker (Leuconotopicus villosus) is having fun with a hardy snack. Typically confused with the downy woodpecker, bushy woodpeckers are bigger, have longer beaks, and have plain white tail feathers whereas the white tail feathers on a downy are often speckled with black.
And a photograph after the wreath was misplaced, discovered and rehung for birds to take pleasure in. Even coated in a heavy layer of snow, birds are in a position to grip onto the pine cones and entry the suet.
A few black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus) stopping by the wreath. Make sure you take a look at Caroline’s earlier submission (Snow Day in Ontario) to see extra birds which have visited Caroline to this point this winter.
An indication of very chilly temperatures and a few critically “sticky” snow, nearly each floor in Caroline’s backyard in coated. Whereas it may’t evaluate to the vibrancy and shade of the hotter months, there’s all the time a peaceful magnificence in deciduous tees draped in a layer of snow. The shiny ornaments hanging from the branches added an additional contact of sparkle and enjoyable.
Thanks for this snow-filled replace in your backyard, Caroline! We haven’t but had an opportunity to see your panorama in full spring or summer season glory, and having fun with your pictures to this point has been like gazing your wrapped presents on Christmas Eve. I’m investigating the shapes and kinds, admiring the simplicity and calm, however I certain hope we lastly get to unwrap these presents someday to see the colour and pleasure that lies beneath!!
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