Business has never been brisker at the Garden Bird Café, with new customers zipping in fast as others depart…
Finches dominate as usual, but Chipping Sparrows, Carolina Wrens and even Dark-Eyed Juncoes clamour for perches at our six different feeders.
Never before have I seen the Juncoes hovering up nyger seed at a feeder that usually attracts only Goldfinches, but the record cold temperatures must be taxing the metabolisms of even these habitually ground-feeding winter-seekers!
