My yard and best gardening friend Willie and I are closing things down for winter in the garden. It's been so warm here that the leaves are just beginning to fall now. I bought an electric leaf chopper/mulcher gizmo on ebay. We'll use that to chop up a nice leaf mixture to put on the front garden, keeping some oak leaf mulch aside for our "experiments" in the basement.
Since the plants are less dense, she likes to creep in among them for whatever reason... Occasionally I catch her starting to prey on the birds as she casts looks back to me to see if I'm looking. She has her "wilding" facial expression so I know something that humans usually don't approve of is about to happen. Yes, I DO correct her. She IS on a leash too.
Otherwise, the birds don't pay her much mind. I've had whole flocks of dark-eyed juncos (quite possibly of different "races"), the neighborhood red-bellied woodpecker and hairy woodpecker, white and rose-breasted nuthatches both male and female ,hundreds of goldfinches,white-crowned sparrows passing through like visiting royalty among the house sparrows, purple finches,cardinals:male,female and an immature male,black-capped chickadees, blue jays looking for peanuts and etc etc.
Willie and I find it immensely satisfying to observe their comings and goings.
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