Yesterday

Well, a few days ago really, the feeder fell empty, and the task of filling it fell to someone tall, i.e. Mark.  Here he is filling the feeder:

Some people are nuts.

Then yesterday, the following letter appeared in our local paper:

Hmm, being a new bird watcher, I really had no perspective to offer to the discussion.  But I asked Mark about it, and he said we normally have one family of chickadees, some titmice, cardinals, and the occasional blue jay...in other words, about what we have now.

My friend Bill, though, said he also had noticed a reduction in the number of birds.

Hmm.  ??

As if to prove her point, looking around yesterday, I could not find a single bird.  Well, at least at that exact instant.  :-)

Where are all the birds, indeed?