Eastern Bluebird eating… cooked crumbled sausage.
Home from Thanksgiving, I was making a shopping list and cleaning out the refrigerator. I had some sausage leftover from quiche-making last Monday. I tossed it onto the feeder tray and voila! .. instant bluebird attractant.
Chickadee also checking it out.
Suet and Other Foods, Birding Basics: Animal fat is easily digested and metabolized by many birds; it’s a high-energy food, especially valuable in cold weather.
Lots of birds at our feeders since I refilled them after our little holiday snowstorm. And these birds attract attention…
A hawk took a run through the backyard, landed on a branch, then flew back across the yard with me standing there on the deck trying to snap a few photos. It did not seem afraid of me.
It landed on a maple branch nearby, probably pissed off.
I am pretty sure it’s a Sharp-shinned Hawk. They are hard to tell from Cooper’s Hawks, but this was more the size of a bluejay than a crow and had a shorter neck and more of a hunched, hooded look.
It was 13 degrees this morning and 4 to 6 inches of crusty snow blankets the earth.
The cat perched like a hawk on her cat tower, watching birds.
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