Welcoming Snow & Winter Birds

This weekend, we welcomed the first big snowfall of the season—on the mountains and in town. On Sunday morning, we woke up to 6 inches of white stuff outside our house, the gorge socked in with a white-gray glaze and a family of happy, hungry birds hopping around on our back porch.

This Junco settled into a spot on the snow-covered grill.

Our winter guests include mostly Dark-eyed Juncos and Scrub Jays. We have a nice bird feeder that we fill with Black Oil Sunflower Seeds. Ours is a popular snack spot in snow. It looks like a lot of fun.

Snow bird

Cooper stands guard. He wants to kiss the Juncos.

We took Coop down to the spit to run around in his first snowfall. He had a great time until he realized how numb he was. We had a beer at the pub to warm up. :) Hurray for winter!!! HURRRRAYYYYY!!!!!