Subject: Re: on that common bird thread ...
Date: Sep 9 15:53:16 1996
From: Katherine Webber - kwebber at ynot.sno.wednet.edu


Steller Jays were attacking our sunflowers. What a wonderful site!!!!
Jays waiting in line to get a chance at the huge heads of flowers. And
then in the next section of our yard where we have the feeders set up we
enjoyed a fourth day of being invaded by two or three dozen or more of
Evening Grobeaks.
------>katherine webber, science teacher, centennial middle school,
snohomish WA KWebber at sno.wednet.edu

On Mon, 9 Sep 1996, Susan L. Collicott wrote:

>
> This weekend I had the wonderful sight of a cloud of black-capped
> chickadees descending upon my sunflowers. I've been thinking about
> cutting off the heads of the flowers and drying them for my own purposes,
> but now I'm going to leave them. I didn't think the birds would bother
> to eat them, as a (usually full) sunflower feeder is just a few feet away.
>
> The sunflowers are right outside my kitchen window, and I was washing
> dishes yesterday, musing on the squabbling house finches on the thistle
> feeders, when suddenly 10 to 15 chickadees came swooping in. They would
> land on a flower head, grab a seed, hop up to the roof, eat, and repeat.
> Must have been half an hour of feeding. No squabbling, just one bird per
> flower ... quite a serene feast, compared to the gluttony going on in the
> background with the finches! :)
>
> The yard was also invaded by bush tits yesterday, my housemate counted
> around 30 of them. They descended upon the suet feeder - you couldn't see
> the feeder for a few minutes, there were so many birds on it! Then, as
> quickly as they came, they left - in a sort of joyous, bouncing flight.
> Bush tits always seem happy, to me, like a big gang of 10-year old kids,
> running around the neighborhood. "C'mon! Let's go! Yahoo! Over here!"
>
> Cheers,
>
> Susan Collicott
> camel at serv.net
> Seattle, WA
>
>