[“Snow�.]

Hi everybody
I hope that you are in the mood for a contest.
Because it’s cold and most of us have lots of snow I will ask you to send pictures with the subject:
   “Snowâ€�. 

Look at your computer or go outside and take some pictures !
Send them to:   
anniepieterse13 @ hotmail.com
get rid of the blanks before and after the @ when you use them via cut and paste

I hope that you like this contest and please send lots of pictures!
  Greetings Aafke

Good to know:

- everybody can send pictures but only members can vote for the best picture

- you can submit up to 3 pictures

-  give the picture a title I can use in the contest

- I'll collect the pictures and  post the pictures with entry number and titles  in an Kodak gallery     album as soon as possible.

- I'll set up a poll so everybody can vote for the best picture

- I will close the poll  a few days after they start.

-The winners will be announced as soon as the poll has ended and I have compiled the results.


                     Have fun           

Beautiful picture Annette!
And yes I see lots of snow, but not at my home  bguitar

greetings Aafke

A few days ago I saw lots of feathers in the nestbox, probably from a prey.
Today I saw a peregrine.
All snow is gone.
The second webcam picture is from December 16
greetings Aafke

Peregrine outside the nestbox.
greetings Aafke

[Blue Tit]

Here is the Puzzle of the Week 239
 
      Blue Tit     

This Blue Tit came in my garden to eat from my newest birdfeeder.

Blue Tit (239) Jigsaw Puzzle

my time: 3.31min for the 48 Piece Classic

   greetings Aafke.

I needed a new post for the other two pictures

After 4 weeks of snow and very cold weather I went to my garden. Almost all snow was gone. The water in the waterbarrel is still frozen.
In my house I found all different kind of seeds who were eaten by (I hope ) a mouse, but it can be a rat too. All the package were damaged. All my dahlia roots were soft because they were frozen, so I can throw all of them away.
Outside I found a dead frog and a few pumpkins with holes in them were birds (or other animals have eaten from them, one was totally gone.
During the snow and cold I went every 2 or 3 days to my garden to feed the birds.
greetings Aafke

From a long time lurker, 1e post at this board
Today, yes 18 january 2010, I received my Shaky Calender.
A present from my son
Aafke did help me to order it. So   to Aafke
So many smiles a day here while looking at it  
greetings,
Tine

Hi Tine
You are very welcome. bguitar
Good that you sent your first post, we expect more!!!!
And I love your avatar, probably a Swift?
  greetings Aafke

  - and a bramling
 - and a great lesser woodpecker, can you find him?
In a few minutes I saw lots of birds
  greetings Aafke

Here a few pictures from this webcam with a lot of different birds.
greetings Aafke

 - Happy New Year wish between the sunflower seeds and a White Stork and a deer

 -  White Stork, Great Tit and Grey Heron

 - Green and Goldfinches, goose, heron and stork

[Kathy G’s Easy Suet Recipe]

Here is Kathy G's Suet recipe, she shared it a long time ago on the yahoo group
and a variation from Diana Robinson

I made this recipe a hundred times and it is good!
  greetings Aafke

Kathy G’s Easy Suet Recipe
1 Cup Shortening
1 Cup peanut butter. I use crunchy
1 Cup flour
1 cup rolled oats
1 cup corn meal
1 cup raisins
2 cups regular wild bird seed

Melt shortening, take it off stove and stir in 1 cup peanut butter
until the peanut butter is same consistency as shortening.
Then into the above mix add the remaining ingredients and spread
the mix into a 9" x 13" cake pan. Put this into the refrigerator
overnight until it hardens. Then I cut this into pieces a little
smaller than a suet cage and I put in freezer bags and freeze it.
Just fill the cages as needed with frozen suet.

The birds will thank you and will flock to your feeders


Diana Robinson’s Variation

The other day I was out of bread and kinda snowed in. I don't eat bread,
but the birds do. So I cooked up a sort of dough that had in it many of
the ingredients of your suet recipe. But I cooked mine, which yours
would not need. Used flour, peanut butter, corn meal, some water. Didn't
think of rolled oats, though I have some. They appreciated the end
result.

Thanks!!!  And I like the feather.
greetings Aafke

[all birds]

With all the snow and cold weather the birds needs more food.
Put some food outside, in your garden or on your balcony or in the park or at a place where you see a lot of birds.
Every bird needs a special kind of food and all birds need food!
You can buy a lot of food but also make something yourself
Maybe we can share what we feed, some new ideas etc.
It's a good idea to feed natural food like sunflowers, nuts and other seeds
           
I looked on the internet for some information about what kind of bird eat what kind of food
maybe you can give more advice

Grey Heron, leftovers from meat or fish

Treecreeper, a bit of peanutbutter on the branches

Buzzard, leftovers from meat, chicken etc

Pigeon, corn, seeds, chickenseed

Duck and goose, corn, brown bread, wheat, cooked potatoes, kale

Magpie, leftovers from chicken or meat, cooked potatoes, pieces of cheese

Redwing and Fieldfare, raisens, old fruit and berries

Crow, leftovers from chicken or meat, pieces of cheese, bold potatoes

Coot, wheat, corn, overripe pears and appels, raisens, berries, brown bread

Great Tit and Blue Tit, sunflowerseeds, suet blocks, seeds, cheese, peanuts

Gulls, fish, meat, bold potatoes, bread, cheese

Blackbird, bread, suet blocks, cheese, raisens, overripe fruit and berries

Starling, bread, suetblocks, cheese, overipe fruit, potatoes, raisens, berries
 
Swan, wheat, corn, bold potatoes, salad cutted in pieces

Who knows more and what do you feed the birds?

  greetings Aafke

[Happy Birthday Mirta Have a great day! greetings Aafke]

    Happy Birthday   


  Mirta      



Have a great day!

  greetings Aafke

Fantastic!!!  Thanks, it's a real pleasure to look at them.
greetings Aafke