Black heads and black birds

When these 2 boys sleep next to each other, I see they have the same black on their handsome heads—both ears, part of the nose—it makes me smile. They are both about 14 years old. Woody's black parts are fading, and his brown parts are almost all gone. Willie looks young as ever. I guess cats don't fade...

I'm not ready for Part 4 of the Bird Buddy series, but it is starting to look like spring is on the way. New birds are joining in the fun. 

The starlings are back in force feeding on whatever goodies they can find on the ground now that the snow is melting.

And this Common Grackle found the feeder for the first time today. 

He scared off all the little birds, probably because he looks so scary with those yellow eyes!

Unfortunately, our lone squirrel, Steve, showed up at the feeder last week too. And he brought a friend. 

I am not happy about that!

Enough people asked the BB team to adjust the AI that IDs the birds so that it could ID their most common visitor as well. Pretty cool that they succeeded.

At least, so far, they are not my most common visitor.