I guess I'm just not sitting around at my kitchen table enough during the week. On saturday while having coffee with my hubbie what visitor should fly up and proceed to spend 10 minutes eating suet out of the plug feeder?
The Hairy Woodpecker! I haven't seen him around since...well November I think. So it was a real treat for me! Exciting to see that I have a few birds wintering that aren't European House Sparrows!
The next day the starling came and sat on the feeding station right by the window...another first! He just sat there preening looking speckled and gorgeous...a great way to start the day! This year is going to be great!
Monday, January 11, 2010
Friday, January 8, 2010
I've never going to win a million dollars...
I'm never going to win a million dollars...
Well I thought I'd try it! I just finished complaining about how there's nothing other than house sparrows here when a couple of starlings decided to return and hang out on my Christmas lights to take in the sun.
Then I hear the undeniable call of the magpie and look out back to see him hanging out...not interested in any of the food, but hanging none the less.
I'm finding it more and more difficult to track what birds eat what when. In the fall the magpies and starlings were all over the suet and peanuts...now they won't go anywhere near them...so what do they eat in the winter?
I tried putting out a couple of frozen dinner rolls to see if bread is their calling...if it is I might just buy a few baguettes and see what happens.
Well I thought I'd try it! I just finished complaining about how there's nothing other than house sparrows here when a couple of starlings decided to return and hang out on my Christmas lights to take in the sun.
Then I hear the undeniable call of the magpie and look out back to see him hanging out...not interested in any of the food, but hanging none the less.
I'm finding it more and more difficult to track what birds eat what when. In the fall the magpies and starlings were all over the suet and peanuts...now they won't go anywhere near them...so what do they eat in the winter?
I tried putting out a couple of frozen dinner rolls to see if bread is their calling...if it is I might just buy a few baguettes and see what happens.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
ZZZZZZZZZZZ.....
Well there's not much to report in the new year here. We all survived the holiday season intact and it would appear that I'm down to house sparrows with the occasional Starling. I swear one of them had to have stopped by for a bath as the entire back door was cover with frozen water droplets the other day.
The woodpeckers have not been seen and the suet's not going down and the shelled peanuts are all still here so I think I'm done with cool birds until April. I wish I could figure out how to draw in the chickadees that are on the other side of the development but I'm guessing the sparrows have chased them off.
Ah well...the posts shall be few and far between now until the birds come back... :(
The woodpeckers have not been seen and the suet's not going down and the shelled peanuts are all still here so I think I'm done with cool birds until April. I wish I could figure out how to draw in the chickadees that are on the other side of the development but I'm guessing the sparrows have chased them off.
Ah well...the posts shall be few and far between now until the birds come back... :(
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
