Thursday

(Sorry! I overslept and then got immediately sidetracked with E-mails and phone calls!)

Direct from Barton Avenue: thanks, Missy!

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Recyclables Day!

Clear and very cold.

My thermometers are ranging from -10 to -8 to -5.3.

• Thursday: A mix of sun and clouds with a few flurries possible. Continued bitter cold. High of 0-10 degrees.
• Thursday night: Partly cloudy and very cold again. Slight chance of flurries. Low between 0 and -5 degrees early...slowly rising temps toward morning.
• Friday: A mix of sun and clouds with a chance of flurries. Not as cold. High: 26, Low: 12

As soon as residents heard the forecast, they began to converge on Foodking: "emergency preparedness," as it were!

And birds - without benefit of radio, tv, newspaper or blog - were battling over sunflower seed in my bird feeders!

The greediest was this red-bellied woodpecker. He worked on a block of suet 'til it was nearly gone!

I rode around the community looking for other bird feeders: quite a few, but the birds think there should be more!

Here are some of the varieties of birds that were at feeders, yesterday ............. photos from "Google Images."

Cardinals,

chickadees,









tufted titmous(es) - or is it "titmice"?











house finch,











juncos,












mourning doves,










and my fairly rare pair of Carolina Wrens.

Out in the cornfields, watch for wild turkeys and flocks of little Snow Buntings: you won't see them until they all fly off, flashing their white wings!

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About the Rotary Clock, which has been telling the same time for a couple of weeks - the Rotary has been advised that the Village is attending to it.

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And there's something else going on, but no one seems to know what it is!