While the rest of East Tennessee was getting excited about snow I was getting excited about the birds in the backyard. As you can see from these photos, the snow was beginning to melt anyway.
I knew as soon as this bird flew to the feeder it was one I had never seen.
Almost as quickly, I knew that it was a Pine Siskin.
Notice how they helped me see the differences between them. I would like to say I was in my photographer's blind, but I was in the comfort of the house. I hung out at the bathroom window for longer than I want to admit. These were at our house in Rockwood. I knew Betsy was up on the mountain getting all excited about the snow, because if it was snowing in the valley below the Cumberland Plateau I knew it was snowing on the plateau, as she fondly calls it, the Glade.
I am off to a photography assignment job this morning, then to my real paying job this afternoon, so I hope the roads are clear.
