bird feeder

I'm delighted to have installed a new bird feeder - outside the garden wall, so that the corn doesn't - one hopes - drop close enough to the house to entice the little mousies.  Early morning, and the moon is still hanging in the tree branches.  A few minutes later, and the tin chickadee had successfully attracted not just a whole lot of finches, but a large, fluffed-up flicker was pecking at the suet log.  It was extremely chilly - and so very surreal returning, a few hours later, to the warmth of LA.