What the Flock (of birds)...

Well, there's no question that it's been a long, cold, snowy winter here in New England. As we typically do when winter is upon us we fill our bird feeders so our local, winter-over fine feathered friends have a some food available to them.

There is always activity and always a variety of different birds that share our feeders, which we enjoy watching. The last month or so we've had flocks of birds descend on the feeders and hungrily gorge themselves.

Here is a flock of Red-winged Black birds -


Here is a flock of Common Grackles -


One thing to note with these pictures is that there are equally as many of these birds sitting up in the surrounding trees waiting for their opportunity to fly down and grab a bite. So what I'm saying is that there are oodles and oodles of birds both in and out of the photos.

Of course the arrival of these folks scare off the other smaller, onesy twosy birds. Fortunately, these flocks don't stay too long before moving on. If they tried to stay longer I would pull the feeders in. I'm not in the business of feeding nomad flocks who are just passing by but rather the locals.

Still thinking Spring...