National Bird Watching Day

National Bird Watching Day

First Celebrated 18 April 2020

This first national day of our glorious country was a bit of a wash out.  The weather has been absolutely pants this April with really, I mean really cold temperatures and inappropriate precipitation.  This is the view from my bedroom window on 15 April:

April Showers?

We have recently seen quite a few birds on our feeder and Jacob in particular has been taking an interest.  Here's a list of what we might have seen on National Bird Watching day:

• Chickadee
• Dark eyed junco
• Chipping sparrow
• Goldfinch
• House sparrow
• White breasted nuthatch
• Downy woodpecker
• Hairy woodpecker
• Yellow bellied woodpecker
• Cardinal
• Robin
• Mourning dove
• American Crow

Here's what we actually saw all day:

• 2 Chickadees
• A few cold looking dark eyed juncos

A pathetic turnout, I think they maybe didn't get the message.  We might try again during Spring Watch.

We also celebrated with special food:

Spaghetti nests with meatball eggs.

Spaghetti nest

Bocconcini penguins.

Bocconcini penguins

Strawberry chicks in ice cream sundae nests.

Strawberry penguins