Hello Tweeters,
After such Birding last week, seeing the Boreal Owl twice, and the trip to
Ocean Shores and Tokland to see the Bar-tailed Godwit and the masses of
Shorebirds, i decide to stay home and relax.
But i got rewarded this morning to had my first Townsend's Warblers in the
yard. There where 6 of them putting on a show, 2 went in to the birthbath
splashing in the water and realy enjoying themself for the longest time the
others hopping on the ground feeding on grubs or on the millet what we
puttig on the ground for the Juncos. The others where in our large Birch
tree.The show lasted 20 minutes. This was the first for this fall. We
always have them in our yard, but even this birds are early here.
Birds sighted this morning:
15 Band-tailed Pigeon
2 Northern Flickers
1 Downy Woodpecker (on newly made Suet)
2 Steller's Jay
3 Black-capped Chickadee
6Chestnut-backed Chickadee
2 Red-breasted Nuthatch
1 Winter Wren
1 Bewick,s Wren
1 Golden-crowned Kinglet
3 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1 Male Vaied Thrush
1 American Robin
6 Townsend,s Warblers
1 Spotted Towhee
1 Song Sparrow
2 Fox Sparrow
15 Dark-eyed Juncos
5 House Finches
I noticed This male Varied Thrush seem big and quite round, larger as most
of the birds i bee seeing here in my yard. Could it be there feeding more
now stocking up for a hard and early Winter?
Even the Weatherman predict a more severe Winter this year. Watch the
birds, and one can predict the weather. There know long time ahead when the
rain is comming the way there feeding, more vigorously, to stack up in case
it, going to be for a wild. The rain here came this afternoon NO MORE BIRDS
in sight.
Ruth Sullivan