Dinner for Squinkies

Here's a "what Parker's into these days" post.  She loves her Squinkies.  They are these tiny little plastic animals and I really don't get what's so interesting about them, but they're very popular.  I'm pretty sure the markup on them is 10,000% and someone out there is laughing all the way to the bank.

Anyway, this should give you some idea of the size.

And this is what she does with them:  sets them up in these little vignettes all over the place. They take a lot of time to set up, and then NO ONE IS TO MOVE THEM.   Here they are at a restaurant.  I helped her make the tiny menus on the computer and she cut them all out.  The stuffed giraffe wearing the Post-it hat is the chef.  The little girl Squinkies in the front are the waitresses.  The Diet Coke can is there for scale.

              

Bird ID

What kind of bird is this? They've discovered the finch feeder recently. It seems very un-natural for them to perch on it....they've had to practice quite a bit to get used to it. From what I can tell, they're eating the niger seeds. I mixed in sunflower chips with the niger because I didn't think I'd have enough finches for a whole feeder's worth.  Oh, and the wind is blowing some of his feathers outward.....they're usually smooth.