Subject: [Tweeters] Birds at my feeders...
Date: Oct 24 22:21:48 2008
From: Darlene Sybert - drsybert at northtown.org


The comment about the potential harm that might occur because birds, etc,
were fed at feeders is ironic considering how many have died because of
other things that man has done to the forests and grasslands.

There are flocks of birds at my feeders now--and under them! There is a
rather extensive brush pile just below the feeders this fall, and this
seems to have increased the number of birds eating there. For several
years, we have had one song sparrow--or at least, that is all we ever
saw at one time--but this week, we have seen three and four at a time
along the front of the brush--going in and out. Large numbers of juncos
and spotted Towhees use it too. The number of Chickadees (black capped
and chestnut backed) and Nuthatches are increasing daily, but the 8
juvenal goldfinch and the fox sparrows disappeared with the cold
weather. I was not too surprised by that, however, because they were
not around here last winter either.

The mourning doves are back again--as many as a dozen some days--and
mostly eat the spilled white millet on the ground. Today, I noticed
that one of them had many more speckles than usual, but then I took
another look and realized it was the female Flicker that lives in my
woods. I have seen her at the Woodpecker Suet Bar (and my metal
chimney) almost daily for several weeks, but this is the first time I
have seen her on the ground.

Darlene
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