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    robins in january????inNW PA?

    I couldnt believe my eyes, there are at least a dozen robins in my yard picking through our leaf pile. Whats up with that? I took a few photos to show my daughter, what do they eat in winter? I know they are looking for bugs in the leaves, and we sure have a lot of leaves, but what do they eat...
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    odd, I have no cardinals, you?

    I live in north west PA, and for some odd reason last spring I noticed that all the cardinals dissapeared, all summer , I heard none, and now there is 6 inches of snow outside, and usually when the snow falls they all show up at the feeders, but nothing, one lone female I spotted a few days ago...
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    a marsh wren cant find a mate,wrong area???

    I have a marsh wren that built a nest in my bird house on a tree at the edge of my woods, its been singing for weeks and he has no mate, I feel so bad, he moved his nest from one house to the other, as soon as he saw us put it on the tree, I live in western pa, and I have no clue why he is here...
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    where did they go?

    I just realized that all the chickadees and titmice dissapeared from my yard. I still have the blue jays, cardinals and goldfinches, doves, blackbirds and now humming birds, and robins. do the chickadees and tits fly someplace else when winter in over?I live in north west pa. ebtammy
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    Oh, tell me theyll be fine!

    I had three or four hummingbird feeders up last year, I had at least 10 humming birds each day feeding, however this year I will not have time to get involved in the feeding ,and wondered if those birds will remember that I fed them and will again nest here. If I dont put feeders up, will the...
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    red wing blackbirds arrived today

    dint expect a whole flock of them, got a quick pic, and a few others today ebtammy ps. got lots of great photos but file is too big to put on post. ebtammy
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    cant find this bird on line to identify it

    I have at my feeders a little black and white marbley looking woodpecker, I cant find a photo of any woodpeckers that look like the ones Ihave here\I have a woodpecker with a red head and black and white feathers , is this a male, and maybe the little one is a female? I live in north east. PA...
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    question for more experienced birders

    It is october here in north western PA and I have robins in my yard. should there be robins still in my yard? I dont know when any birds leave or who stays, do male canaries loose their bright yellow? they must ,all mine are brown now. I live against the woods, and I have animals at night in...
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    how many feeders?

    I have three hummer feeders, two on the porch and one twenty ft away on a hanging plant hook stuck in the ground a 'big' hummingbird with a fancy red chest sits on this hook and watches the porch feeders and chases others away, now that there is a feeder directly under his 'thrown' will he go...
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    where did the pileated woodpecker go?

    we recently moved to a new area last month, and we kept hearing a very odd tropical bird call, then we saw the giant pileated woodpecker picking bugs out of a stump at the woods edge, we had it around for about a week or so, then it dissapeared, we hear it no more. was it looking for a good...
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    what sugar to use for...

    I need to know if I should use regular white cane sugar or raw sugar, [that still has the molasses is it], to make hummingbird nectar. any good recipees?
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    dint the robins and starlings leave here already?

    I saw a robin on my lawn this evening, I havent seen them for a while so I thought they left to go south, does that mean they suspect winter will not be here as soon as we think? Also, I found a dead european starling while cutting the grass I also thought they left, I found it odd, missing one...
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    a little advice needed now!

    I have a problem I cant solve my self, I am an inexperienced birder. I live in Butler county pennsylvania, in my whole life I have never seen a cedar waxwing,never anywhere in P.A., untill three weeks ago, when I was outside sitting on my porch and spotted one on my electric wire, I couldnt...
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    where to buy feed

    I live in n.w P.a. , Butler county,and I wondered if I could afford to feed all summer, first of all I have to pay 5.99 for 20 lb of feed,with nice seed, pennington from walmart, or 12.99 for 40 lbs of not so nice feed,from a supply store nearby or trader horn, lot of corn. I get a lot of...
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    new today

    hi all, Im new today ,and hoping I have time to visit before I leave for florida, hopefully I can see some birds in florida, I ve never been to florida.I am from P.A. does anyone know of any good places to see a lot of wildlife there I will be in a small area called Lakeland, so I am not sure...
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