Backyard bird watching

[2na]

suet is .88/cake at Ocean State this week

[Raven]

i am just about out.....i even stuff two halfs of a cake
into the old bluebird house to thwart the JAYS (wolf pack)
for the little guys...

[Chris in Mass]

Great day at the feeder. Working from home today and gotta great view of the back yard and woods. A couple of additions to the site. Suet log feeder has been great. Nutty feedings have gone way up with this addition, with multiple peckers able to feed at once. Also, I have been throwing dry meal worms in two feeding cups the last few weeks. Titmouse (or mice?) were the only ones partaking until today. Got my first pair of Bluebirds ever - I was so pumped. Then an hour later behind the feeders on the edge of the woods, 7 deer come into view and decide to hang out awhile.

[Raven]

Originally Posted by Chris in Mass

Titmouse (or mice?) were the only ones partaking until today.

Titmouse if your viewing one
Titmice if your viewing more than one

[justplugit]

I forecast snow by the appearance of Juncos on the ground feeder.

No Juncos this morning, and even though forecasted, not a flake.

[Raven]

heck no
they flew up from Maryland to get out of the Blizzard

but ->while Braving the Jacuzzi yesterday
thinking about your lack of NUTTIES

this nuthatch is eating the fresh suet i put in the cube
so i started a Nut hatch sound .....err err err
and he 's lookin all around everywhere
ok who SAID that !

and their eye sight and accuracy literally amazed me
because he dropped the teeniest little piece of suet
onto a christmas tree branch i have out there
and instantly he pecked it right back up in a half blink
of an eye like it was the easiest thing to ever do.

i was..... thinking , if only i could still see that well.

[justplugit]

Ya Rav nuthatches, at least i have one this winter without having
seen one since last spring.
Their eye sight amazes me along with that of owls, hawks, eagles and sea gulls.
Amazing how there will be working gulls so far out you can only see them
with field glasses and suddenly the gulls leave the beach to join them.
Prolly a combo of eyesight and hearing?