Cool Down

One of the best outcomes of our unhappy trip up north a week ago was had here, at home.  I left town without any instructions given to a friend to fill feeders.  At the time I thought the feeders might barely hold out.  They didn't.  The waves of House Finches and goldfinches wiped out the sunflower seed reserves.  Perhaps frustrated in a birdy sort of way by my failure to top off the feeders, the hordes moved elsewhere and I realized a cool-down.  Few finches!  Things are somewhat quieter.  We didn't lose all of the other species: just, really, the piggy ones.  Of course they will return.  But in the meantime, we got a respite.  And that is a good thing!