Winter Horses, Birds, and a Rascally Squirrel.

Wednesday's snow is gone now but lets go back a few days because I still have snow scenes to show you. The horses are in Frederick County, VA.

The kids across the road from us built a snowman. I'm sure it melted today because temperatures were unseasonably warm and now it is raining.

I already posted pictures of the fluffy snow while it was fresh, and here's one more. These are black vultures.

Sharing with Saturday's Critters and I'd Rather Be Birdin'

I've placed bird feeders where I can view them from our windows. Here we see some goldfinches and a junco, followed by a picture of ducks on the lake.

Squirrels are experts at finding food and are amazing acrobats. They have well-developed claws and can actually swivel their ankle joints. They help themselves to bird seed and often seem like a nuisance.

I do have one bird feeder that seems to defeat them, plus they don't like red pepper suet. I avoid red pepper in seed though, having learned the hard way that it can become airborne and get in my eyes! Supposedly squirrels don't like thistle seed either, which is what is in the above finch feeder, but I've seen one of our squirrels eat it. In fact, he enlarged the holes in the plastic so that the seed fell on the ground! I guess he was really hungry.

I let this cute guy finish off that seed block. Now he wants more!