Larry Lade
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Jeff, that is a great count for your yard! Did you input your birds to the GBBC? I think our high count is around 21 species here in our yard. Yesterday I approached that with a count to 20 species though!
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Very busy at the bird feeder today! (39 Viewers)
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Larry Lade
Moderator
This is the last day of the GBBC (Great Backyard Bird Count). So far I have tallied 19 species. I would like to get a couple more, but it looks like rain and all the birds seem to have left to seek cover!
I suspect it wasn't an unusual winter's day, Larry. The difference was that I spent 4 hours in the yard AND made sure I could see the sky most of the time. I usually sit where I can see the feeders, so I can take photos but can't see the sky.
I entered the list on eBird. I believe that automatically includes it in the GBBC data.
Jeff
www.jeffincypress.blogspot.com
Larry Lade
Moderator
I entered my data on the GBBC site and it also goes to ebird. I do not know if it works the other way around. I will have to check and see.
Socar MYLES
Well-known member
I've been getting a lot of eagle action, lately: mostly bald, but the occasional golden sneaks in. They don't stop at the feeder, of course, but they've been doing loads of overflights. I've been chasing them around the neighbourhood, hoping they'll land somewhere, so I can get a picture, but they just float serenely overhead, unaware of my groundbound desperation. I've nicknamed the baldies "Larry David," as they are bald (well, bald-looking) and uncooperative. So far, I have not got a good picture.
As far as the feeders go, I'm getting a LOT of visits from the same song sparrow, which gets mad at me if I am out on the balcony, and squeaks till I go inside. (It won't eat while I'm there.) I'm also getting a lot of Anna's hummingbird. I know there's at least one male bird and one female popping round, but I've never had more than one bird at the same time, so I have no idea how many individuals are eating.
As far as the feeders go, I'm getting a LOT of visits from the same song sparrow, which gets mad at me if I am out on the balcony, and squeaks till I go inside. (It won't eat while I'm there.) I'm also getting a lot of Anna's hummingbird. I know there's at least one male bird and one female popping round, but I've never had more than one bird at the same time, so I have no idea how many individuals are eating.
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Socar MYLES
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Nice puffy squirrel, there! Haven't seen one of those in ages. I think the ones we get round here are black, so they're harder to spot.
Bananafishbones
Incoherently Rambling .....
Great garden birding across the water with Jeff, Larry and Socar.... good stuff
Bananafishbones
Incoherently Rambling .....
A few days ago I had a mixed flock of Siskin and Lesser Redpoll, couldnt get a count as the light was poor and mostly in sillouette.
Todays highlight is certainly the Coal Tits ..... female very flirtatious with 2 males fighting each other for her affections... spring is most certainly in the air.
Still plenty of Siskin and the single Goldcrest who shows up avery few days or so
Todays highlight is certainly the Coal Tits ..... female very flirtatious with 2 males fighting each other for her affections... spring is most certainly in the air.
Still plenty of Siskin and the single Goldcrest who shows up avery few days or so
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alexcropper83
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Siskins down to half a dozen now. Installed a new feeder and they seem to have disappeared! Goldfinches still hanging around too. 3 blackbirds chasing each other back and forth around the garden, they seem to take the exact same route every day in their chasing! Song Thrush singing close by, Chaffinches starting to sing, though the Blackbirds are still silent.
Also now got a resident fox in the garden who seems to be living in my brother's upturned kayak!
Also now got a resident fox in the garden who seems to be living in my brother's upturned kayak!
Jaff
Registered Member
They're GRRRRRRRRRREAT! :t:
Socar MYLES
Well-known member
I was hearing a very interesting, unfamiliar birdcall, this morning, for about 15 minutes. I was going barmy, peering out over the courtyard, searching for the unfamiliar bird...
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...then, I realised it was on the telly, not in the garden. :t:
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...then, I realised it was on the telly, not in the garden. :t:
Bananafishbones
Incoherently Rambling .....
:flyaway:
Larry Lade
Moderator
It began snowing here in Saint Joseph, Missouri at 8 AM. The weather people are forecasting a major winter blizzard, perhaps with a predicted accumulation of snow greater than a previous record of 11 1/2 inches in 1900. The birds are swamping our feeders in the yard! We are getting a lot of the "snow birds", aka. Dark-eyed Juncos!
* We only had an accumulation of 3 inches of snow, while our son down in Kansas City, Missouri (50 miles south of us in Saint Joseph) had 10 inches of snow, and expecting more!
* We only had an accumulation of 3 inches of snow, while our son down in Kansas City, Missouri (50 miles south of us in Saint Joseph) had 10 inches of snow, and expecting more!
LowellMills
Is this your Sanderling?
Robin box WILL go up tonight. I've been saying this all week.
Mary
Well-known member
Hope you're well stocked up with bird food (...... and human food as well, of course!) Good luck:t:
Larry Lade
Moderator
Thanks, Mary. We are well stocked with food for the birds and also for Brenda and me!
The European Starlings finally found their way to our yard to join the:
American Robins
Dark-eyed Juncos
House Finches
Downy Woodpeckers
Pine Siskins
Northern Cardinals
Red-bellied Woodpeckers
Red-breasted Nuthatches
Black-capped Chickadees
House Sparrow
American Goldfinches
&
Blue Jays
The European Starlings finally found their way to our yard to join the:
American Robins
Dark-eyed Juncos
House Finches
Downy Woodpeckers
Pine Siskins
Northern Cardinals
Red-bellied Woodpeckers
Red-breasted Nuthatches
Black-capped Chickadees
House Sparrow
American Goldfinches
&
Blue Jays
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