a great gift

 My son and family know that my spouse and I like to watch the birds at the bird feeders outside our kitchen window, especially in the mornings as we drink our coffee.  We keep a book of Indiana birds handy so we can identify birds we don't recognize.  

Knowing all this my son and family gave us a fascinating Christmas gift.  It's a 'smart' bird feeder.  It has a little camera imbedded inside which takes pictures of the birds who come to eat and then identifies them.  

We spent today assembling the bird feeder.  I say we but my wonder spouse really did the work while I cheered him on.

Here he is working on the high tech feeder.  The dark piece that looks like a roof contains the solar panel to power the camera when the sun shines - obviously not today.  There is a back-up battery.

Here (on the right) is the finished product.  It looks like a little white house.  The birds who show up are photographed by the camera and the pictures come to our phones.  Only one picture so far and that was after dark so it just looks like a spooky ghost bird.  Ah well, tomorrow is another day.