Arrived at mom's today just in time to sit down and eat turkey, and looked outside to see her forsythia bush full of birds that winter over in Washington, including a few Rufous-sided Towhees, which was busy eating (seeds?) off the bush, along with robins, house sparrows, black capped chickadees and bushtits-all birds fluffed up against the cold today.
So while I had written these bushes off as giving pretty yellow blooms for, say two minutes in the spring, maybe there's another reason to plant them-food for the birds in the winter.
Photo courtesy of the Seattle Audubon Society, Paul Bannick.
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