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    Today at the feeder

    Hurray!! First Yellow bellied sap sucker landed on the red pine beside the deck - then over to the maple...where he (she?) just sits and sucks for seemingly hours on end. I love spring.
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    Today at the feeder

    Hummingbird map Found this site the other day: http://www.hummingbirds.net/map.html and the migration map is fun to visit and "watch" the northward migration...though I think they're still several weeks away from Eastern Ontario.
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    Today at the feeder

    Wet, wild and windy here (Ottawa Valley) today...but the songsparrows have arrived and are singing their little hearts out. Also RB and WB nuthatches, chickadees, blue jays, hairy and downy wpkrs, and the first two robins of the year.
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    Closing down the feeder for the summer.

    Here in eastern Ontario I feed year round - have watched nuthatches, cardinals, hairy and downy woodpeckers and blue jays all bring their young to the feeders - in warm months we also put out a bird bath with a drip tube and the birds all love it - great entertainment for the people watching too!
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    I could use helpful advice, please :)

    We put out black oil sunflower, niger, peanut butter suet, and peanuts (in a metal cage feeder with holes) - the yard's pretty messy come spring, but easily rakes up to clean the area. We also put out a dripping water tube that "plinks" into a bird bath -really attracts the birds too. The...
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    peanuts or sunflowers seeds

    We put out five feeders - black oil sunflower, niger, peanuts (in metal cage with holes) suet (peanut butter) and a platform for peanuts. The Blue Jays eat from the platform - taking huge mouthfuls - 7 nuts at a time! while we get chickadees, white and red breasted nuthatches, hairy and downy...
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    Beautiful Sign of Spring

    when does the snow go? Well,we had A LOT of the white stuff this winter along the Ottawa River (about an hour 1/2 west of Ottawa)...should be another couple of weeks until its all gone - but it's still 2 feet deep off the deck! ...Temp yesterday was +5, high of 6+ today..as for trees - the...
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    Comment by 'SRE' in media 'Displaying Ruffed Grouse'

    Thank you -it was very exciting watching "the dance" - a real priviledge, considering I didn't even have to go outside to observe! Susan
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    YOU're best Bird ever

    Best birds...(they're all great,but...) 1. Snowy Owl...watching while he had his lunch on a fence post beside my car 2. Indigo Bunting..at our feeder 3. Pair of male wood ducks...magnificent
  10. Displaying Ruffed Grouse

    Displaying Ruffed Grouse

    Male displaying for the female who can be observed in the sumac
    • SRE
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    • displaying ruffed grouse
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    Beautiful Sign of Spring

    What a thrill! Looked out the window this morning, and there right off the deck was a male ruffed grouse proudly displaying for the female, sitting rather aloof in the sumac tree...he circled the tree several times, showing off his ruff and his tail to great advantage..until she flew off to...
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    Merlin today (pic attached)

    Merlins We had two in our yard last year - they love the white pines - and all the other small birds at the feeder...who quickly disappeared from the yard for the summer! SRE
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    Good Morning from the Ottawa Valley Canada

    thanks Good advice - shall start there...
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    Good Morning from the Ottawa Valley Canada

    Started looking for a help site for birds of Cuba - we were there last week - and saw what I believe to be an emerald hummingbird - with long forked tail...any verification would be appreciated - there doesn't appear to be many bird sites devoted to the birds of Cuba... Here at home I'm watching...
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