Today at the feeder (1 Viewer)

[amkid247]

today so far ive had chickadees and downys at my clinger station ( i dont take that many pictures of my actual feeder b/c its further away from my window)
a downy girl which i suspect is one of the offspring of my 2 regular downies. Shes the only one whos wary of me, and her whites are soo bright. shes more white than black i think, and she has ATTITUDE. I manages to score a picture of her going after a house sparrow who was going toward her suet while she was on it.
Chickadee And Downy Eating
Attack Of The Woodpecker!

 

[snowyowl]

Sparrows a-plenty.

Until Wednesday we had twenty acres of uncut barley in the field behind the house. It has now been turned under. I suspect that's why we have had so many sparrows around. White-throats, Songs, and White-crowned seemed to be everywhere.
At the feeders yesterday and the day before we had:
White-throated Sparrows
White-crowned Sparrows
Song Sparrows
Savannah Sparrows
Fox Sparrows
Dark-eyed Juncos
Purple Finches
American Goldfinches
Mourning Doves
Downy Woodpeckers
Blue Jays
European Starlings
House Sparrows
Black-capped Chickadees
American Crows
and also in the garden near the feeder area
Yellow-rumped Warblers
Ruby-crowned Kinglets
American Robins
Northern Flickers
and other species that were back in the woods and along the river
Greater Yellowlegs
Great Blue Heron
Belted Kingfisher
A. Black Ducks
A. Wigeon
Golden-crowned Kinglets
Bald Eagle
Ruffed Grouse
Common Ravens
I thought that was a pretty good list for not leaving home.

 

[A CHAPLIN]

Hi Snowy Owl

That is a fantastic list by anybody's standards for "not leaving home" as you put it. Today I have seen

9 House Sparrows
2 Blue Tits
2 Coal Tits
2 Blackbirds
9 Collard Doves
1 Woodpigeon
1 Grey Squirrel and oops forgot
My Dunnock just having her tea

Ann :egghead:

 

[cavan wood]

Lots of new activity here as well. I took down the feeders this summer and just put the black oil sunflower feeders up again about a week ago.

I just got home a couple of hours ago from a weekend away and here is what I saw.
bc chickadee
house finch
goldfinch
purple finch
white-breasted nuthatch
bluejay
and..............for the first time in about 5 years......
evening grosbeak B

Scott

 

[A CHAPLIN]

Hi Scott,

It is good to hear the birds soon found your feeder and congratulations on the return of the Evening Grosbeak, I hope it keeps coming and brings some friends. It is always special seeing a bird for the first time but they are the ones most likely to be just passing through, to have one return again after all that time is even more thrilling to me if they used to visit regular, if that makes sense.

Keep the lists coming folks it is great hearing and seeing about birds from other countries on feeders, more colourful than my House Sparrows which I love to bits.

Ann :egghead::bounce:

 

[snowyowl]

Good list. The Evening Grosbeaks have become very scarce here too.

 

[Katherine]

Coal Tits returned today!

 

[Katherine]

16 Goldfinches at the same time this afternoon!

:t:

 

[snowyowl]

My feeders are relatively quiet right now. Lots of Blue Jays, A. Goldfinches and Mourning Doves. The large mix of White-throated, White-crowned and Fox Sparrows that were here seemed to have moved on. The Song Sparrows are still here and the Dark-eyed Juncos have arrived. Black-capped Chickadees are here regularly although not in large numbers. Both Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers visit everyday and a Red-breasted Nuthatch has finally shown up.
The House sparrows are still around and a Common Grackle stopped by yesterday.
All of the species here now should stay for the winter (except for the grackle).
It will be interesting to see if we get the normal influx of winter finches down from the north. Last year the numbers were way down.

 

[Peewit]

I can see that there is a lot of bird activity at the moment. Autumn is here now so that is the colder weather has affected wildlife now.

We have our regular

Wood Pigeons 2
Collared Dove 2
Blackbirds 7 +
Robins
Blue Tits ......
Chaffinches .......
Dunnocks 2
House Sparrows ......
Starlings - small flock!!
and more ........

and of course our Resident Tawny Owl :-O

Plenty of lodgers at the moment

Regards
Kathy

 

[cavan wood]

It will be interesting to see if we get the normal influx of winter finches down from the north. Last year the numbers were way down.

All indications are that there will be a lot of winter finches. There have been pine siskins around Peterborough (Canada) already, but not at my feeder. I have heard (can't remember by whom) that the cone crops in the north are not great this year.

Scott

 

[snowyowl]

I was surprised to see a dozen Common Grackles the feeders this morning. I thought they were gone south weeks ago.

 

[cavan wood]

The evening grosbeaks were back, along with many goldfinches, bluejays, most of the regulars and a cardinal. I'm anticipating redpolls, as I saw a flock of about 25 a bit further north in the same county.

Scott

 

[snowyowl]

Still quite a few sparrows moving through but no winter finches yet. Grosbeaks would be great but we just haven't been getting them in recent years. Lots of juncos are here now and they'll stay around for the winter.

 

[cavan wood]

Pine siskins showed up today at the niger and at the sunflower. Very cool.

Scott

 

[snowyowl]

When I glanced out at the feeders yesterday I was surprised to see a dozen Evening Grosbeaks. I haven't seen that many around in several years. One stayed all day but rest seemed to moved on.
A pair of Purple Finches showed up yesterday as well so perhaps things are starting to hot up for winter.
The Blue Jays are really cleaning out the feeders to the point that it is almost becoming a problem.

 

[amasara]

Glad to hear you are having new sightings - your bjays sound like the grackles I so despise in the summer - hope those you saw the other day aren't headed my way!! I've put out a double sock finch feeder and they are flocking to it! Even eating the old thistle!! It's so warm yet here and there are so many natural seeds - not much activity. I've been concentrating on trying to save my deer herd - we have a virus that is descimating their population. I water every day and they drain the tub - it comes from a gnat that they encounter at the drying up water supplies - drought!! So far I see the large buck - huge rack - and my favorite "Jersey" whose antler looks like a giraffe (which I called jerseyraffs as a kid) plus the main herd of 12 or so.
Do have a funny BIRD story - my 20lb Siamese got treed by dogs and while we were trying to convince him to come down a cooper's hawk dive bombed him! I think it was a favorite limb for the hawk to land and when he saw a LARGE cat on it he made a U-turn and I saw him cross the field in front!!

 

[cavan wood]

When I glanced out at the feeders yesterday I was surprised to see a dozen Evening Grosbeaks. I haven't seen that many around in several years. One stayed all day but rest seemed to moved on.
A pair of Purple Finches showed up yesterday as well so perhaps things are starting to hot up for winter.
The Blue Jays are really cleaning out the feeders to the point that it is almost becoming a problem.

Good to hear about the grosbeaks. I had a purple finch today as well. The bluejays seem to be hoarding. I've seen them gulp down so many seeds that not only were their crops distended, but their bills wouldn't close. Then they'd fly away only to come back later and do it again. It does seem to have slowed down a bit lately though. Perhaps their caches are getting full.

Scott

 

[snowyowl]

No sign that mine are slowing down. I'll have to buy another 18 kg of sunflower seeds today.

 

[JeffMoh]

Things picking up

Things are picking up here in southeast Texas, now that the heat of summer has finally passed.

Our yard continues to have its regular visitors: Blue Jay, Carolina Chickadee, Carolina Wren, White-winged Dove, Mourning Dove, Downy Woodpecker, Red-bellied Woodpecker, House Finch, Northern Cardinal.

Red-breasted Nuthatch moved in a couple of weeks ago and has now been joined by Yellow-rumped Warbler, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Pine Warbler and Yellow-bellied Sapsucker.

It shouldn't be long now until we get the rest of our winter birds - American Robin, American Goldfinch, Chipping Sparrow, etc.

Jeff