Post-Christmas Bird Haven

Corynn and I finished our bird haven this afternoon before rest time. What fun we had-and what a mess we made! With cleaning up hurricane kids gingerbread house, then hurricane grown up gingerbread house, and now hurricane birdscape all in one week-I am bit tired of disaster clean-up. No more messy projects for a while, I say! :-) That said, I am very proud of how it turned out.

I am SO pleased. Guess what happened? While we were out there-some chickadees (one especially brave one) came right up to us (not a foot away!) We could have touched it! We stood there a moment afraid to move then, I ran in to get the camera and it flew off-but returned when I returned. I was just about to snap the picture when the battery died. I flew inside again only to realize that we had no more batteries. I scrounged some old ones out of something else but to no avail. The gracious bird AGAIN returned when I came back but the batteries were not new enough and so, died again. The moment was lost. What luck...

Back to the tree: We made several different kinds of ornaments. We hollowed some oranges and limes and made birdseed baskets; on other peel slices we put grape jelly, still others we quartered. We slathered peanut butter on pinecones and then dipped in birdseed; we mixed birdseed and bacon grease inside cookie cutters, and we made shapes out of toast by using cookie cutters. I *think* that covers it. We were going to go on a nature walk to collect red berried and put sprigs of those throughout as well, but it was rainy this morning. I suspect those birdies know where those berries are anyway...

I wish I could post all the photos on this one post, but Blogger hates me and never allows me to do that. It sure would be nice though, for categorizing, to have all associated pictures together. At least I can post them seperately. So-the rest of the photos just have to stay in January archives.

Now-off the computer for me, to clean those breadcrumbs and birdseed so our little Panda doesn't get a feast...