The baby from the shelf nest was nearly as big as her (I think it's a female) parents and it wasn't long before I had trouble picking her out from the adults. A week or so later, the younger babies from the floor nest were up and about. I count the birds every night before turning off the lights and formerly had only counted adults. I had to start counting them all:
I now have 27 white fantail pigeons, a pretty flock who appear to be healthy and happy:
Our weather was occasionally cold - and occasionally it snowed, but then melted away. Flocks of geese passed overhead in large numbers but then they were finished, and I saw them no more:
Inside, the 11 bantam hens were safe from foxes and comparatively warm:
On really nice days, I'd open their door for air but kept the bars up to keep them safe. They wanted to go outside, though, as they don't understand about foxes:
I have been trying to get the cows to come in for a bit of grain each morning but they sometimes will only come up to the barn and stop:
So to give them extra nutrition and remind them that grain is good (and I am the nice guy who provides it), I carried bowls out to them. One morning, Blue didn't want to come into the barn and tried to steal Rosella's grain:
I finally decided that they didn't like walking across all those rocks, so I smoothed it out as much as possible (this picture is a "before," not an "after shot):
The cold became steady enough that our snow began to stick. Luckily, it was only sporadic and light at first:
And I was treated to frequent and glorious winter sunsets at ever earlier hours:
The neighbors put up Christmas lights on their barn, a pretty holiday scene:
