Watching the Birds

Not too long ago, lady genevieve & I woke up a little early one weekend morning.  As we were playing in our great room, I noticed some cardinals outside our windows.  We went closer to look out, and that's when I noticed there were tons of them- maybe 20+.  And then there were 2 blue jay.  When we looked up we saw a red headed woodpecker in the sycamore tree right next to the house, overlooking the ground that all the birds were eating seed from- it was amazing!

Interestingly, the Laird had hung up a skinny red bird feeder in order to attract the birds, but we hadn't seen any up to that point.  Last year we had lots of cardinals, but for some reason they had yet to find the bird feeder.  Without luck in the back, the Laird decided to move the feeder to a tree in the front of the yard.  For some reason they don't like the feeder.  The morning we found the amazing gathering of birds, they were gathered eating food off the ground.

The Laird built a little bird feeder out of many pieces of scrap pine, left over from my barn door building projects.  He also had a few thin pieces of cedar he used as well. Though he doesn't think it's anything special and minimizes how well it turned out (says he didn't really design it), I think it looks great and can't wait for him to hang it up and test it out.  We tea stained the wood and applied 1 coat of Satin Polyurethane to protect it from the weather and help it to last longer.

Watching the different birds frequenting Redwoodshire is fascinating.  They are so beautiful against the white snow.  Hopefully, this little bird feeder will bring more and more for us to watch.  We still have to figure out how to hang it or attach it to a post.

More news fit to print at Redwoodshire- We had a resident great horned owl living in the woods here at Redwoodshire up until it died this past Fall.  We were quite sat to discover it had passed, as we loved hearing it hoot hoot in the night.  The Laird and lady genevieve loved exploring the woods and making occasional sightings as well. We were sad that he had passed, as you can't just invite owls to come take residence on your land.  Last week, the Laird spotted a new great horned owl and found that it had taken up residence in the same tree as our late owl (he found fresh owl poop collecting at the base of the tree.)  We are excited and hope that he lives here for many years.