{"id":4797,"date":"2019-02-09T16:39:27","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T16:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmeadow.com\/?p=4797"},"modified":"2019-02-09T16:39:27","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T16:39:27","slug":"sanity-prevailed-or-still-snowing-take-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/?p=4797","title":{"rendered":"Sanity prevailed. Or… Still snowing, take 2."},"content":{"rendered":"

We decided shoveling a path to the bird feeders was better than trying to tromp around on snowshoes.<\/p>\n

\"Oh<\/a>

Oh look! I found a stair!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Oh<\/a>

Oh look! I found green grass!!<\/p><\/div>\n

I was standing in well over two feet of snow at that point.<\/p>\n

\"Oh<\/a>

Oh look! I’m getting really poohed. For something so light and fluffy, this white stuff is heavy.<\/p><\/div>\n

Finally I reached my goal and shoveled some areas around the feeders, but not all the way to the grass.\u00a0 I left a good foot of snow on the ground so that when the birds were feeding they wouldn’t be down in a hole and could keep an eye out for predators.\u00a0 We had Cooper’s Hawk here yesterday and Juncos are excellent snack food for those guys<\/p>\n

\"Happy<\/a>

Happy birds taking full advantage of the bounty.<\/p><\/div>\n

Since we put out the seeds, we’ve had Juncos, Rufous-sided Towhee, Varied Thrush, Flicker, Downy Woodpecker.\u00a0 The new seeds will get buried but that won’t bother the birds; they’ll simply dig them out.<\/p>\n

And we even put some seeds on the porch by the sliding glass door so our cat has a full day of watching the Bird Channel on Kitty-TV.<\/p>\n

Best of all, the snowshoes have maintained their primary use of being a wall hanging (someday whenever I get around to doing that with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We decided shoveling a path to the bird feeders was better than trying to tromp around on snowshoes. I was standing in well over two feet of snow at that point. Finally I reached my goal and shoveled some areas around the feeders, but not all the way to the grass.\u00a0 I left a good […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4797"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4808,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4797\/revisions\/4808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}