hello everyone
Very glad to be a new member of the bird forum and hope to learn from all of you in the future. I love to feed the birds, photograph and watch there behavior. A goal of mine is to creat a native backyard habitat with red oiser dogwood, spiarea, wild rose, red flowering currant, service berry and evergreens, but still much more work to do as I need to make a water feature just for the birds. Thanks for all of you who post pictures I view those to get tips on how to be a better photographer, and also those who have good knowledge of bird behavior as I have many questions about some of my experiences with bird activity. Just today somthing unusual happened. I had my kitchen window open with camera set up inside to get photos of the gossbeaks. I noticed what I thought was a very pregnent and very lazy downy woodpecker not standing but laying on a small wood platform. Later that day while watching TV waiting for better lighting outside this woodpecker entered the house through the window and perched ontop of a small piece of driftwood near the sink, a few moments later it fell into the dry sink and could not get out. I returned it to a safe corner of the deck and offered it some suet with a little water bowl and to hours later she died. My guess is she was looking for a safe place to pass away, but why was the bird so fat with chest bulging out is this a signe of old age in some birds? Also dozens of woodpeckers will feed on this suet from sun up too sun down, is there such a thing as a bird eating too much food? Take care everyone
Very glad to be a new member of the bird forum and hope to learn from all of you in the future. I love to feed the birds, photograph and watch there behavior. A goal of mine is to creat a native backyard habitat with red oiser dogwood, spiarea, wild rose, red flowering currant, service berry and evergreens, but still much more work to do as I need to make a water feature just for the birds. Thanks for all of you who post pictures I view those to get tips on how to be a better photographer, and also those who have good knowledge of bird behavior as I have many questions about some of my experiences with bird activity. Just today somthing unusual happened. I had my kitchen window open with camera set up inside to get photos of the gossbeaks. I noticed what I thought was a very pregnent and very lazy downy woodpecker not standing but laying on a small wood platform. Later that day while watching TV waiting for better lighting outside this woodpecker entered the house through the window and perched ontop of a small piece of driftwood near the sink, a few moments later it fell into the dry sink and could not get out. I returned it to a safe corner of the deck and offered it some suet with a little water bowl and to hours later she died. My guess is she was looking for a safe place to pass away, but why was the bird so fat with chest bulging out is this a signe of old age in some birds? Also dozens of woodpeckers will feed on this suet from sun up too sun down, is there such a thing as a bird eating too much food? Take care everyone
