Welcome back!amasara said:I'm back!! Been home since Monday 8th but just got the courage to navigate the stairs to get to the computer. I'm having a dizzy problem and catching up on 75 emails plus site postings doesn't help. I was greeted by a new bird for me on my 1st day home - kept thinking I was hearing a warbler and sure enough the yellow-rump or myrtle appeared on a roof section I could see from my chair!! Nice welcome home!! Think I'd better hit the bed again - doing fine with walking etc. Snow due here tonight - hope to see many birds!
Don't be surprised if one day I show up on your doorstep!Tammie said:Larry, I'm only a couple of hours from Lake Superior, about 450 kms east of Thunder Bay.
If you come up in the summer, you won't have to worry about more 'logs on the fire' or hot chocolate and you'll see some bears, loons and mergansers , all right. Moose, you can all year 'round.
Then again, if you come up in the summer, bring LOTS of bug spray and mosquito netting! They are pretty much a national 'bird' after all!
Larry Lade said:Hi Tammie, I guess I just assumed there were quite a few Bohemian Waxwings up in Canada. Looking at my "Sibley's" it seemed they were pretty wide spead, expecially in winter. I guess I do not feel quite so bad at not seeing any yet, if you haven't either! Oh well, you get all that other "neat stuff"!
Larry Lade said:That is another thing that makes this Bird Forum so exciting. Birds that are common here are very much sought after in the UK, and visa versa. Very much the case with you and me, you would like a Northern Cardinal and I could sure use that Evening Grosbeak!
If it helps any - Great Spotted Wp is very like Hairy Wp, and Green Wp behaves in a similar manner to Northern Flicker (though it doesn't look too similar!)Tammie said:One bird in the UK I would love to see is the green woodpecker they have. That bird just fascinates me to no end!! That and their great spotted woodpecker. Such cool birds!!
We get both types of waxwing here, although it's Cedars that are more common year round but with an increase in Bohemians in Fall an Winter. We usually get lots of Evening Grosbeaks in Winter. This year, with the failed berry crop and a shortage of cones in some areas, I don't know where all the Winter birds are.Tammie said:Hi Larry,
B. Waxwings may very well be here....I know the cedars are... I just haven't been anywhere to see them and also haven't been able to coax them into the yard yet. I'm working on that, planting things that produce berries and such. It's such a slow process tho'!
And I'm sure you get a lot of 'neat stuff' that I don't so it all normally equals out in the end, right?
snowyowl said:We get both types of waxwing here, although it's Cedars that are more common year round but with an increase in Bohemians in Fall an Winter. We usually get lots of Evening Grosbeaks in Winter. This year, with the failed berry crop and a shortage of cones in some areas, I don't know where all the Winter birds are.