Bird Watching: Daily Pics Vol. 174, 0 by rutholive

rutholive wrote:
Don't know how I missed this thread. Have been bird watching all my long life. I live in the hill country, no other house in sight unless I go to edge of my 5 acres. Very dry area, only trees are ones I have planted since I moved here almost 14 years ago. Have a lot of Calif. quail, and English sparrows. Probably 3 doz. Goldfinches. Several juncos, at least one American Tree sparrow. A large flock of Cedar waxwings came by and cleaned up my Prairie Fire Malus allee of 10 trees with lots of fruit. No robins yet this late winter.

There is at least 10" of crusted snow, with part of my 200 plus feet of paths cleaned outof snow. So my little Lhaso Apso can run on those partly cleaned paths. Now that the snow is crusted she can walk on top.

Here is a picture of some of the Calif. quail eating a mix of chicken scratch and wild bird feed.

Donna