Another cold and windy day. We keep a heater in our birdbath during the winter months so that there is a steady supply of fresh water. Some weeks we have to add a gallon of water a day. How they stand to bathe when the temperature is in the teens is beyond me. In the picture, a male Bluebird and a female Cardinal watch another Bluebird take a bath.
Here's who was visiting for baths and drinks this morning, sometimes seven at a time:
Cardinals
Eastern Bluebirds
White-throated sparrows
Nuthatch
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Chickadees
Mockingbirds
Bluejays
Titmice
Goldfinches
House Finches
Towhee
Carolina Wren
Robins
Flicker
2 comments:
What a great picture. I have seen a bluebird recently also....I thought that they migrated for the winter....no?
We've seen Bluebirds in the winter for many years, at least since we started using the heater in the birdbath. (And that's been quite a while.) I've often wondered if ours went further south, but we got northern visitors who thought this was far enough to migrate. Who knows? Anyway, they're around all winter.
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