Backyard Bird Watching 2

[redcrbbr]

count birds? I have done this the past few years


http://gbbc.birdcount.org/?utm_sourc...009f-278108985

[Raven]

Bob that's a real task
i'd go bonkers trying to do that

[Raven]

they only will eat suet

sometimes it's available sometimes not
scored today!

this extra large basket found at walmart holds
$6.00 of suet all at once.... the other suet froze rock solid

[Raven]

small bird stomachs are really really small

so take your toaster outside and give it a

good shake and little birds eat it right up

[justplugit]

Rav, that looks like a 1/2 inch opening. The squirrels were able to get through mine until I cut out pieces of 1/4 inch hardware cloth and lined it. Their little ugly sharp teeth can't get through to reach it and drives them crazy.

[Raven]

yeah i know.... was thinking along the same lines
might have to buy a piece of mesh....

friggan starlings are more of an issue as their feasting sound
draws more and more until it's like piranha

[Raven]

just a heads up:
Lowe's has the bigger suet baskets and they have
this slide over the top (something new)
landing deck to allow birds to sit and scarf suet....
new sound: (coming to a Bigfish gutter near you -lol)
this morning the woodpecker was drumming on the maple tree

[ProfessorM]

Going to fill up the feeders today for the first time in 2 years. Feeling bad for the little buggers this year. I'll bet it only takes an hour before an air traffic controller will be needed.

[nightfighter]

I'm trying to figure out how to get to where the feeder will be placed... Chest deep snow where I want it, which is based on not hitting neighbor's property when I want to "discourage" squirrels.....

[ProfessorM]

Good to be small. Most of the snow holds my weight. Got to all of them easy.
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[massbassman]

Feel bad for the poor things, been feeding them bread all winter. Usually gone within an hour.
Saw my first Robin this am... Spring is comin'!!
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[Raven]

old dry cat-food thrown out at night
brings out the predators .... "hint"

i even feed Crows
using the broadcast method on top of hard snow

[Raven]

see that thicket behind the crow
i throw old apples to deer in there
and watch them BED down back in the canyon
redwings returned today

[Raven]

wish this was my photograph -it isn't of a Pileated wood pecker
but this is what i saw this afternoon hoping up a dead tree
across the canyon....just got a quick peek with the binoculars
and he left the area... unreal how big they are!

[Raven]

enjoying the purple finches song.....
having an outside coffee on our
first 70 degree day
listen to it here....
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Purple_Finch/sounds

[Raven]

birds in full chorus now
that's my alarm clock
time to make the coffee
towhee's are back
still no catbirds

[Raven]

catbirds showed up today
two baltimore oriels arrived
rose breasted gross beaks are here too...

[ProfessorM]

Saw my first hummingbird this morning. Also heard the catbirds too
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[Raven]

hearing your Hummingbird sighting
i made a batch of sugar water (6 cups boiled water to 2 cups sugar stirred clear)
located two feeders and set them up
have hummingbirds feeding today already

[Raven]

Also known as a Black and white Creeper
because they behave like the Brown Creeper

here's what it looks like. positive ID because i was
only 12 feet away with very powerful Binoc's

[Raven]

a great idea
the ant moat
on this feeder
the (black ants) bastids
can even crawl down 20 lb test

[Raven]

after living once on a ranch that had 100 chickens
i got pretty good at imitating their c l u c k i n g... ok (that being said)

i go to let the dog out yesterday
and our Local sorta pet neighborhood turkey
comes walkin up the trail from the back field

for what ever reason instinct kicked in and i started
c l u c k i n g at him/ her not sure which
and it was Fascinated studying me intensely sensing
no danger....

it extended it's one leg backwards in the air to stretch out
as it stood on the other .....staying there ...about 35 feet away
trying to figure out what i was saying in fowl language....

then it slowly headed back down the trail

[spence]

Noticed something odd hanging off my cedar stockade fence today when I went to fill the feeders. Seemed feathery but pretty decomposed.

Last week when we were away a bird appears to have gotten a leg stuck in between two pickets. Struggling it just slipped deeper down to the top rail.

What a way to go.

[Raven]

saw one of free range chickens dead (long time ago)
it tried to eat a lizard that was a little too big to swallow
the back legs sticking straight out at the Beak...

[Raven]

night visitor ....smaller than a grey squirrel
...faster than speedy gonzales...
turns out the wide eyed lil bugger is a
flying squirrel ...known for getting into your house

[ProfessorM]

Rocky
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[Raven]

(stairway to heaven) we call it
Christmas Turkeys strolling by
@9:20am

[Fly Rod]

setting my wife up for back yard bird watching, bought her a set up....did not realize the cost, the free standing pole(rod), squirrel cover, plastic thistle seed container and suet and holder....
$110.00 ....may need a loan to buy thistle seed....lol.....

[Raven]

those RED mesh or white mesh potato bags
work great for suet feeders.

Hey, you PAY for them when you BUY potato's
they are easy for wood peckers to "Cling" to

I wrapped a hollow log with black shade cloth strip
to make it clingy and to hold IN the GROCERY store bought
MEAT fat suet which is Highly preferred ...and a chunk of
LOG with Simulated wood pecker holes 3/4 inch to 1 1/2
and you HEEL IN(with palm of hand) some fat into those holes
and you'll have happy nutty's and WOODPeckers.

[Raven]

I spread seed for some cedar wax wings
but they didn't go for it... they split.

the Turkeys got Captured from my Blind
heh heh

wooped em again Josey

how's this for a close up