Yesterday morning I got up around 6 o'clock. On opening the shades, I noticed a lot of bird activity in the garden. In fact, it was the most all Winter! There were half a dozen Juncos, a couple of Chickadees and two male Cardinals. (Of course the camera malfunctioned when the Cardinals were posed near the patio door.) There even was a Mourning Dove, and I hadn't seen any of them in months. This bird hopped right up to the patio door and looked in at me. All the little birds were busily cleaning off any remaining Aster seeds. It's too bad these birds didn't visit on the day of the Bird Count. Maybe they came because meteorological Spring begins next week!