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Good Morning everyone!

Just wanted to wish all a great weekend. Looks like we finally will have a few days without heavy snowfall.

Here's a couple of pictures of some visiting birds yesterday. These guys are called Silktails in Swedish and Bohemian Waxwings in English. They come in great numbers in the winter/spring and feed on the berries in trees and bushes. I think we had somewhere between 60 and 80 here at the same time. The cats went crazy and didn't know where to look . Also a picture of one of my cats before they arrived.





Tossan, Maine Coon cat 11 years



Maggy

Maggy, your pics are just fantastic. You are such a great photographer.

I can see that the bird has the same name in Danish “silkehale”. I would love to have them here, but just now we don’t have so many different birds in the surroundings, as we use to. I think perhaps many of the little birds are dead, because of the heavy frost we have had for a long time.
We nearly only see blackbird, a few tree sparrow and some great tits. Outside my window just now a blackbird is eating of the fat balls we have in the tree. Sometimes I also can see gold crests, but it’s about two months since I have seen one.

God weekend- we are going to Boennerup to continue the painting of our house.

Linne

great pictures-thanks for posting!

nice pics! Did you take with your small canon camera?
Great shots!

Great to see photos of the Bohemian! We have Cedar Waxwings here, I have caught them with my camera, and supposedly Bohemians too But I have never spotted them.

Thank you for your nice comments.

Yes sea-nile, I took the pictures with my small canon camera. I actually took them from inside my kitchen, through the window.

Agree with you Linne, the small birds are having a very hard time right now. We feed them all we can to help out. And as soon as the dark comes, the roe deers are there to feed on the seeds on the ground. They are also suffering right now, no food for them. But as long as they are here just in the winter and NOT in the summer, it's OK. But the day they start eating my flowers and vegatables, I won't be as nice .

Maggy

Ha-ha...your kitty cat looks like how I feel today.

Very nice pictures! I feel so sorry for the animals right now. In Iowa they just don't have access to the grass so they are having such a hard time getting something to eat. We are going tomorrow to get them something at bomgaars. I really want to share a few pictures of the squirrels.

I love the picture of your kitten. So sweet!

Gina

I guess that I have no fear... posting blurry long range shots on this page.

When I saw your waxwings I thought "I will get a shot of the cedar waxwings that visit the East Palatka Holly tree". Usually they are a huge flock, arriving in February, and they remove all berries in minutes.
Today a flock of very hungry robins beat them to it. It is pouring rain and only 38 or 40 degrees. Sorry for the bad pic; I was a weather wimp.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/floridalin ... 351284497/" title="robinrain by lprof, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4004/435 ... 8f0e53.jpg" width="500" height="352" alt="robinrain"></a>
Migrating robin in the rain.


Have a great weekend and Happy Valentine's Day!

awwwe I would love to see a robin. They won't be back here in Michigan until the end of March. I always like to see my first robin on the 1st day of Spring...my birthday!

I like your picture of the cedar waxwing, Iprof. It's interesting to see other birds (call me a crazy birdlady, catlady or fishlady . I like most animals (except ticks).

It's amazing to watch them completely empty all the berries in no time. We are totally out of them now and I haven't see one waxwing since last week.

We have robins here as well, but most of them move during the winter and come back in the spring. The few that stayed have had a really tuff winter and might not have survived.

Last weekend, there was a volontarily bird count all over the country. You should report the maximum number of every bird species you noticed by your feeders. It was interesting. Our no one in Sweden was the Great Tit (parus major).

Maggy

our cat loves to sleep on PC

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/27134057@N04/4354846684/" title="cat on PC by SHOEMAK38, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4021/435 ... 804629.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="cat on PC"></a>

these deer in back yard last weekend
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/27134057@N04/4354846242/" title="deer by SHOEMAK38, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4027/435 ... 15daca.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="deer"></a>

Shoe, Your cat pictured triggered this one from me. This is Oskar and Gimli. I call the shot "Brothers in Arms":

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/12829989@N00/4358150096/" title="Oskar and Gimli, BROTHERS IN ARMS by taterjoes, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2714/435 ... 5cd1a5.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Oskar and Gimli, BROTHERS IN ARMS"></a>

Ah, that is very sweet JT. They are beautiful!

Here is of our cat that I don't think I have shared. I was in the men's den and caught a movement out of the corner of my eye. Upon taking a closer look I realized it was Sassy. She climbs into everything and anything. One day she got into my youngest son's bookbag. Luckily he figured it out in the car--after screaming like a girl--haha. Anyway, here is the picture--by the way I had to open it a little more so that you could see what was in the box. She is too funny.