The Great Backyard Bird Count

My first time to participate in the Great Backyard Bird Count. Snow, beautiful snow falling, falling, falling and forming a magnificent backdrop to the activity outside my window.  Twenty species!
     Mourning Dove - 9
     Downy Woodpecker - 1
     Hairy Woodpecker - 1
     Carolina Chickadee - 5
     Tufted Titmouse - 1
     Carolina Wren - 2
     Eastern Bluebird - 2
     American Robin - 1
     Brown Thrasher - 1
     Pine Warbler - 4
     Eastern Towhee - 2
     Chipping Sparrow - 3
     Song Sparrow - 2
     Dark-eyed Junco - 4
     Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) - 8
     Northern Cardinal - 5
     Red-winged Blackbird - 1
     Common Grackle - 1
     House Finch - 4
     American Goldfinch - 42 (a conservative number)


Blue, rust, gold, green, red, lavender ... a colorful spectacle that my camera could not capture.  So delightful that I didn't even begrudge the grackle and red-winged blackbird their share of the afternoon feast, even though my beloved little goldfinch fled whenever they appeared.  Odd that these sinister fellows kept coming back to the feeder together.  Rather like the comic, black cloaked villain of a Vaudeville show, although the allusion is poor, for the scene is anything but gaudy.