Visitors to the bird feeder

Here are some of the rarer visitors to my birdfeeder: house sparrows. They notice any movement inside the house, and scatter immediately. But I managed to capture these two.

Not to be left out of the fun, here's a red squirrel who cleans out the feeders every day. So far, it has been just one visitor at a time, but I have heard two of them chattering and chasing each other through the trees.

And the most unusual visitor: Amber the cat. She is 16, although you would never know it by the way she can get up on the deck railing and balance on a 4-inch wide board covered with snow and ice. Even in a snow storm, she stands on guard.