I am seeing ton's of Carolina Chickadees, Tufted Titmice, Doves, House Finches, regular sparrows, Cardinals and a woodpecker or two. It took a while and I was impatient but it is going very good now.
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I am seeing ton's of Carolina Chickadees, Tufted Titmice, Doves, House Finches, regular sparrows, Cardinals and a woodpecker or two. It took a while and I was impatient but it is going very good now.
Fun watching, isn't it?
Yes it is I can sit and do it for a long time I'm just not retired yet so I don't have the time I'd like to devote to it. But I don't have but a few more years probably before I'm ready to hang it up
Other than the birds (no idea what kind, just birds) I see having breakfast in my front yard every morning, I never notice birds...But this afternoon I was getting into my truck when I saw a big bird in the side yard about to carry off a squirrel he killed...A guy passing by said it was a red-tailed hawk, which would explain all the red feathers on his tail...Anything that will kill a squirrel is welcome in my yard...:hatoff:...Ben
I remain very cognizant of birds around me because both my wife and I take them as fond inhabitants of our world. Their busy movements and chattering are most welcome in that world. I miss them when they are not around for the most part with a few exceptions such as the periodic invasions of doves, grackles and cowbirds at our feeders. Curiously, on a vacation in Ireland we both made note of the emptiness of the land of birds and how we missed that. Strange for Texans who are blessed with many varieties.
You guys feed year round? I only fill the feeders in the dead of winter because i feel sorry for them. I dont shoot coyotes or foxes for the same reason. I feel like im feeding the cats though so i quit soon as i can. I dont like cats for what they do to the birds but i like mice and creepy crawlies less.:shrug:
Im probably doing it wrong :dunce:
I used to feed all the time but now I only put food out while we are there. The bear problem had become overly expensive, they tore up feeders like it was sport.
I love to watch the antics at the feeders and the different "personalities" on display. It does not take long for them to realize there is food out---I suspect they might have a watchman :smilie:
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Wow you don't see those out in daylight around here.
I never saw one before either. I think its a long eared owl:shrug: We have lots of owls at the main house to the point we have hell keeping a kitten.
We dont have many colorful birds around my house except for bluebirds. And this year we had less than i remember. I saw something in the paper about the scrub jays being way down in numbers. I have them here so i feel lucky. The most interesting bird i saw this winter was a grosbeak. Im sure there were others because they are usually in flocks.
On second thought, we had a flock of turkeys 2 miles from the house this winter and nobody has ever seen them around here before. Must have been the amount of snow we had.
In my hood.... little guy has grown up so fast...
If you were a Navajo you would have to move.:yike: Owls are bad medicine.
We do not, to the best of my knowledge, have long eared owls around here but we do have their big cousins---the great horned owl.
We used to have a nesting pair in the corner of the woods. One very cloudy overcast winter day I was out in the adjoining field knelt down for some reason and one of them came in right over my head. It was very close to sending me back to the house for a clean-up :omfg::nono:
We have Great Horned, Barn, Eastern Screechers, and Barred Owls. I seen all of them from one time or the other. Back when I lived on the farm and had chickens the Great Horned were a menace constantly taking my chickens. Again, I just have never seen them out much during the day only from dusk on.
Here on the winter range we have screech owls and great horned. I think this is a boreal?
I believe you are right. Here is one of my oft used sites for IDs.Quote:
Originally Posted by CactusCurt
I did not mean to suggest we only had great horned owls here, in fact we have a wide range of owls but most often I see signs of their presence or hear them at night. As a kid we had a family of barn owls living in one of our silos---they perched on the top ring right above the ladder---it made going up to throw silage down hazardous duty :redmad:
Commonly I find pellets around the base of a nesting tree---look close and you will find out what they are living on :cool:
This turns out to be an interesting observation. I was scrolling thru my pictures looking for something and I noticed this was on the same day as the recent eclipse, A couple of hours before.Quote:
Originally Posted by Honda
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