For the birds

Over the long, cold weekend, we decided to make a little treat for our bird friends.

Jenni mixed up some bird seed, gelatin, flour and corn syrup, then sprayed some cookie cutters. The girls scooped and pressed and scooped some more.




(Toddler Wily wasn't keen on getting her fingers dirty.)





When it warms up a bit (and when Eric feels like tromping through 2 feet of snow), we'll hang them on our pine tree.

Can identify more birds than Big Bird

This is our second year participating in Project Feeder Watch, a citizen science project out of Cornell University. Both Jeneric and Toddler Wily get into checking out the back and front windows for birds. This year, Jeneric is getting good at identifying many of the common visitors - Black Capped Chickadee, Cardinals and her favorite, the Goldfinch (when we invested in a new feeder, she requested something that the goldfinch would like).


Eric is filling the feeder. Again. Our bird community can devour a full feeder in a day, although usually they are polite and take two days. Oh - that pink rabbit in the bottom left corner? Jeneric wrote a note to the birds on the back side and tape it to the window so they could read it. We do not know what it says because she insists we can "just read it."



Jeneric takes a turn with the binoculars. And the neighbors close their shades...




Now Toddler Wily takes a turn. Sort of.