Mom's turn: The perfect tree...AGAIN?

One particularly lovely tradition that we started a few years ago is to recycle our Christmas tree into a yard ornament for the birds. My hubby digs a hole and gets it out for us and my DD and I make all sorts of bird treat ornaments for the tree.

Stringing the garland

a pinecone covered in peanut butter and then rolled in fruitflavored bird food

some leftover bird treats we had in the pantry

Can't forget the tree-topper...an apple core. Birds love fresh fruit

Then for the next several months we get to watch the different wild life visit the yard and try to get pictures. Hmmm…I can see we need to try harder!

who's the photographer anyway?!?!?!?!

HEY - maybe she could use lessons...what a great Mother's Day present *hint hint*

For some reason the birds aren't sticking around much this year. AH HA! I found the culprit...he lays on the porch and waits for them to land before chasing them out of his yard!

That's a very inocent look you have there, Samson!