I love the Cardinals - they look so wonderful against the snow and pine trees. We normally have 20 - 30 in our yard. They are the first to arrive in the morning, and the last to leave at night.Quote:
Originally Posted by sparks19
I love the Cardinals - they look so wonderful against the snow and pine trees. We normally have 20 - 30 in our yard. They are the first to arrive in the morning, and the last to leave at night.Quote:
Originally Posted by sparks19
They're my favorite, and we have a lot here too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grace
I'm out of bird seed, and can't get to the tree with the feeder anyway. I noticed the birds have been raiding the dry cat food on the porch that is Sherbie's. We always have a problem with the crows doing that in the Spring and early Summer, but never saw any others doing it.
I crumbled up some bread and a stale bagel, and added some rolled oats to it, and tossed some out in the snow for the poor hungry little ones. They have been eating it, so at least they are getting some food. I remember when I was a kid, my mother always took bread that was getting stale and crumbled it for the birds. :)
I've actually just been spreading the seed on the railing of our porch since I don't actually have a real bird feeder.
I'm glad you're doing the crumbs. I've read that once you start feeding the birds in the winter, you shouldn't stop because they have become dependent on that food. But it gets real hard sometimes.Quote:
Originally Posted by pomtzu
We have one suet feeder and two hanging tubes. There are 5 - 6 places where I scatter seed on the ground for the ground feeders. When it snows, I'm out there a couple of times a day, brushing the snow from those areas so the birds can get to the seed.
I don't have any seed, but I have some stale bread that I wanted
to throw out for the birds. Trouble is, I have to wait till it stops snowing
or it will just get covered up.
A lady I used to work with sent me a little take off of the Who Dat
song. It's pretty good.:D
"This is what i wanted to yell at people on the way home this evening.
Snow on da' ground.....snow on da' ground..... Drivin' like a fool wit da' snow on the ground....look at ya now - car spinnin' around.....drivin like a fool wit da' snow on Da ground!!!... Slow it down .... "
Here we go! It's SNOWING!
hasn't started here yet... said it should start after 3. so I'm gonna head out soon to the bead store and then go get hannah so we can hunker down, keep warm and watch the snowfall :)
We totally missed out the last storm; we're supposed to get some this time.
Yikes! Good luck to you all up there; I'll keep my fingers crossed for you!!!Quote:
Here we go! It's SNOWING!
The snow has started. I timed it perfectly HAHA. I went to the store and to pick up hannah and it started snowing when I was under 2 miles from home. perfect :)
now they've upgraded us to getting 20 inches possibly more
Hasn't started in south Jersey yet.
I'm trying to avoid the sensationalism on the tv because all that does is increase my nervous anxiousness over the whole mess.
This one is going to last longer than the last storm, it sounds like.
Hopefully the fact that the temps aren't going to be quite as cold will facilitate melting quicker afterwards, but at the same time that increases chances of heavy, wet snow sitting on wires.
Cape May County was pretty crippled with power outtages and they still haven't finished fixing things down there...so if other areas lose power, it's going to be a while before things get righted. I heard Cape May County asked for Federal Assistance but it couldn't get there before this Storm Part Two gets started.
Be safe everyone! I hope it passes quicker than they think and is less powerful than they think! Our expected accumulation is anything from 8" to 20"...hoping for something much closer to 8" for sure!
Nothing here - yet! They're saying could be sleet and snow mixed before changing over to all snow tomorrow. I'm hoping it's all snow, since sleet will make it treacherous. Any where between 6"-20" of snow depending on who you listen to, so I'm not listening to anybody. We get what we get, and go from there!
Stay safe everyone - it's gonna be a long day again tomorrow! :(
It started snowing here this morning and it's now after 6:00 and it's still snowing. We're expecting another foot. Sigh. :mad:
In my neck of the woods, we're expecting around 6-10" of that white stuff overnight tonight and tomorrow. My thoughts and prayers go out to the people in the D.C. and eastern Maryland area who will be hard hit again.
yeah we're in the 12" to 18" range "possibly more" they say.
We've got just over an inch already and it started just after 5pm