While thanksgiving and christmas can for some, most bring extra everything, they do bring company, colorful lights and decor. January at least here in garden zone 5a, eastern ontario, canada its winter. The darkest days are now behind us, each day brings a little bit more light but it also brings cold temps, freezing rain and snow, lots and lots of snow

It also for the farm brings the bird feeders, sometimes i create little sets the one above that are temp for photography and if the offerings are good, the birds will pose for me just long enough.

Sometimes we head for our sunday drives and spot the bald eagles by the creek or the south nation river.. Sometimes we head into the forest and spot ravens, moose, deer and often doves and if we are very lucky indeed owls

However most of the time, the main bird photography happens in the yard at the different bird feeders, here the regulars join us on their preferred feeding stations, some like the wide open platform

Others love the stump feeder station, including our rare (should be way down south for the winter) Brown Thrasher

But most of the time its more common to our area birds, the Evening Grosbeaks are bright and colorful! The older males are so much brighter then the young males.

Rarely do you get a photo of a white breasted nuthatch not hanging upside down!

We are blessed with two types of woodpeckers and we have a mated pair of them always, some years the females will have two males in a three way bond, i have seen this in Gold Finches as well

What are you seeing at your feeders in your yard? Do you have certain birds that you enjoy seeing, we are keeping count of the birds daily to do a wee report to Ebird for our local area and we did a full recorded account for the winter bird count for our area and across the globe.

Do you enjoy bird watching? Bird Photography?