JAN 1st 2014......

 It's here ! It's the first day of a new year. The fabric sales have begun..............Thrushes that have returned. They usually do, in the winter, preferring the seed pans till spring when the bugs are more plentiful.

Thrushes have reappeared, because of winter. They will hang around the garden, eating seeds and singing. The cats love to watch them.  

And another set of fabric. Music fabric. So hard to find  and  ready to be cut.......

And meanwhile, the Thrushes   poke away in the dead leaves.

 Thrushes are stocky, happy, hopping songbirds with long legs and long bills. Their call has a haunting trill that is unmistakable. They're a little shy, but  rather bossy with other birds when around the seed pan, trying to steal all the peanuts away from the jays.

And there's still more fabric. I love this combo...teal with orange, peacocks, swirls, and solid coral.  Colour. Colour.

 There is a rare Thrush , that is hardly ever seen, that has white feathers, in place of the regular orange . In this part of B.C. you can see thrushes almost year round. If it snows, we will have flocks scouring under bushes for seeds.

Spencer on New Year's day, purring and snorting with abandon.

 

Smokey on New Year's Night. He sort of glowed in the light.......

                             First day of the New Year over......on to the next and the next.......