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soothsayer

(38,601 posts)
Mon Feb 15, 2021, 12:36 PM Feb 2021

Have you participated in the Great Backyard Bird Count yet? Tell us what birds you've been seeing! #


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Have you participated in the Great Backyard Bird Count yet? Tell us what birds you've been seeing! #GBBC


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The 24th annual Great Backyard Bird Count starts today! Join bird-lovers around the world to help scientists study birds—it takes as little as 15 minutes. Sign up today: https://birdcount.org #GBBC
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Siwsan

(26,177 posts)
1. I'm going to have to dig out my Peterson's Guide
Mon Feb 15, 2021, 12:38 PM
Feb 2021

I have noticed a pair of Cardinals at the feeder, every morning.

dem4decades

(11,242 posts)
3. Last week we had 7 males at the feeder at once. They concentrate this time of year then spread out
Mon Feb 15, 2021, 12:58 PM
Feb 2021

during the nesting season. Juncos, Flickers, Blue Jays, Tufted Titmouse, Hairy and Downey woodpeckers, Red Breasted woodpeckers, wrens, Nuthatches, Black Capped chickadees, starlings, crows are here most days. We did have a pileated a few weeks back but he's pretty rare in the backyard.

Siwsan

(26,177 posts)
4. I get a LOT of Nuthatches and Blue Jays and the occasional Woodpecker.
Mon Feb 15, 2021, 01:25 PM
Feb 2021

And flocks of different little brown birds. I'm guessing they are sparrows and wrens. Guessing is why I need to find that guide! The important thing is that I love watching them. As does my little Tuxedo cat, Sophie Stinky Toes.

3catwoman3

(23,815 posts)
2. We did it this weekend.
Mon Feb 15, 2021, 12:51 PM
Feb 2021

Mourning doves, cardinals, starlings, juncos, nuthatches, and sparrows - lots and lots of sparrows.

The sparrows never light long enough for me to get a good look at the details of their markings, so I’m not sure how many different kinds we may have.

We laugh to ourselves that they probably expend more energy going back and forth to the feeder than they take in from the seed they eat. Take a seed, fly away, take a seed, fly away, take a seed, fly away. They are the definition of “flighty.”

MOMFUDSKI

(5,201 posts)
5. Had a diving coot of some kind from last October until about a week ago
Mon Feb 15, 2021, 01:36 PM
Feb 2021

also have Florida mallards, moorhens, osprey, hawks, pelican, cormorant, anhinga, great white egret, cattle egret, ibis, carolina wrens seem to have left for the summer, mockingbirds starting to get noisier and more active now and will divebomb one's head during nesting season (been there; done that), wood storks, vultures until spring arrives, seagulls year-round, blue herons year-round, but NOT ONE PARTRIDGE TO BE FOUND. Who doesn't love birds? We summer in Milwaukee and believe it or not, last year came a brewers' blackbird to my deck. He would follow me like a dog out to the garden hopping in the grass. So, of course, I offered some bread and he got real close and the next thing he is eating from my hand and then sitting on my leg and then tried to land on my shoulder. But he would mix it up with the other birds, too. I figured he was raised by a human and released. This went on for about 7 weeks and then, one day, he didn't show up. And I never saw him again. I am afraid that being so tame didn't bode well for him if he approached the wrong human. I will never know but just hope he is free and flying somewhere. Good day to all.

frazzled

(18,402 posts)
8. Doesn't this leave out half the country?
Mon Feb 15, 2021, 02:04 PM
Feb 2021

We’re buried under snow and have had frigid temperatures for weeks. Plus we live in the middle of a big city, with no back yard. No bird in its right mind would show its beak here.

 

rusty fender

(3,428 posts)
9. I live slightly north of Santa Fe, NM
Mon Feb 15, 2021, 02:04 PM
Feb 2021

The robins and crows don’t fly south for the winter and I’ve seen them lately, but I don’t have a feeder set up for them(my neighbor does, though) only water so I haven’t seen the real picture of bird activity in my neighborhood.

Vinca

(50,170 posts)
10. I should do that. I've got an amazing array of woodpeckers at my feeder this winter.
Mon Feb 15, 2021, 02:09 PM
Feb 2021

Yesterday we had a pair of pileated woodpeckers in the tree behind the house. I hoped they might try to get seeds out of the feeder, but I guess even they knew they were too big for it.

Kaleva

(36,146 posts)
12. Chickadees, Nuthatches, Bluejays, Evening Grosbeaks, Pine Grosbeaks, Mourning Doves,
Mon Feb 15, 2021, 02:28 PM
Feb 2021

Goldfinches, Downy woodpeckers, Hairy woodpeckers.

llmart

(15,499 posts)
13. Just as an FYI...
Mon Feb 15, 2021, 02:30 PM
Feb 2021

did you know that DU has a group for birders under Recreation? I occasionally peek in there because I love birdwatching and I learn a lot from the posters.

Bayard

(21,805 posts)
14. We have Bird Central in the backyard
Mon Feb 15, 2021, 03:00 PM
Feb 2021

Can watch from our kitchen window and there's way too many to count on the 4 feeders. Probably 30+ Cardinals, Goldfinches, Nuthatches, Chickadees, Wrens, Bluejays, coming and going constantly.

They really appreciate the chow now with all the ice, snow, and frigid temps.

Xolodno

(6,330 posts)
16. We have a bird feeder, to entertain our cats. From that I've seen
Mon Feb 15, 2021, 04:25 PM
Feb 2021

Sparrows obviously, but also doves, blue jays and LeConte's Thrasher. Not at the feeder but around, seen Red Tail Hawk's, Ferruginous Hawk on our balcony, crows and various owl's at night. It's nice to live in a rural area.

At the family vacation home, wild turkey's, wood peckers, owls, hawk's (not sure which kind). Along with a shit load of deer (there is an apple tree on property...which we've never been able to have as they eat them all) and a skunk we all call George. Standing at the grill and flipping meat and George just walks past us like we are not even there...and of course, we don't do anything to provoke him.

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