Action at the bird feeder

It's been quite the week for many. My coughing is lessening, although I'm still up at night.  The coughing is giving me headaches, it's so bad! The antibiotics are doing their work, as well as the ventolin puffer. Thank goodness for drugs! Thanks to all who have been asking.
Sadie has a bad cold, too! She's wheezing and sneezing. No temperature, though, and she should get over it.

Thursday the sun came out. I grabbed the zoom and sat awhile. My coughing scares Daisy and hubby, no one else seems bothered! Buster just sits on my lap when he is in for the day. More on that later, too! He's the best hot water bottle!

You can imagine the outtakes! All of us have those funny bird butt photos. Gone are the days when we had to throw out bad photos. The trick to this photo shoot was to prefocus the camera, putting it on manual. The autofocus was useless!

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No birds were harmed at the feeder. The cats have managed to grab only a few birds in the summer. None at the feeders since I put them up. We had a bird of prey at the front, I think, and we lost a blue jay and a grouse this month. They were going so fast, right into the window. More on the grouse in another post.

The birds watch the cats carefully. They almost taunt the cats! In our last year here, they've caught 6 birds, and I've released two. This, in summer.

The ornamental corn the woodpeckers love. The bucket underneath is the one where I put whole peanuts. About 10 seconds after I put a handful of peanuts in, the blue jays begin. It relieves the pressure for the other birds, since the jays dominate the feeder. They do need an air traffic controller, though, as there were several near misses as they dove in for food.