Birds of the air.............

....................and of course, the squirrels, always hunting through the garden for acorns which fortunately were prolific this year.

Seems that an acorn diet quickly becomes boring, and digging for them through 8 inches of snow a real chore..........

.........so a dessert of birdseed is still enjoyed despite the upside down acrobatic moves required to get it!

A good spot for bird watching is here, standing just inside the doorway of the potting shed where I'm able to see the birds at the feeders yet they are unaware they are being watched and photographed.

The female Towhee with a fallen sunflower seed in her beak.  Towhees almost always feed from the ground...............

.........and her handsome mate watching from a branch.

Never a lack of Cardinals in the garden..........the brilliant red male, noisy and boistrous...............

................and his lovely mate, more subtle in color but beautiful and ladylike.

Titmouse, left, and a sparrow on the mixed seed feeder........

..........and the Titmouse taking a seed from the feeder which it will crack open on the branch.

Always my favorite, tiny Carolina Wren, photographed through the dining room window.  Perhaps the most sensible bird when it comes to staying warm and dry.......visiting the front porch (where it was most likely born last Spring as we always have a nest there!), fluffing up, and just hanging about out of reach of the bad weather.  Note the height of the snow on top of the fountain.

Do you enjoy watching birds?  Do you fill feeders year round?