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Heron
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: powell,Ohio
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great article scarecrow thanks for sharing
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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![]() ...Maybe I'll be seeing them too before too long.
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#133 |
Salamander
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Grimes County,Texas
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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![]() Nope, not yet...but I've been putting out peanuts off and on for a couple of weeks now. ...and there were some sunflower seed heads there for a while, but they are picked clean now. I hope to grow a lot more next year, for me and for the birds. I'm wanting to steer clear of feeders, but I'm not there yet. I'm wondering if a farmers market would still have the sunflower seed heads....I'd rather but those and put them out--they could be "disposable" (used for compost in my garden), would allow for fresh perches each time they are replaced (to cut down on possible disease transmission), and would help the local economy. Even if I plant my own, I'm thinking I should suggest it at a farmers market. I'm late in getting seed put out, but at least the weather hasn't been bad.
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#135 |
Salamander
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Grimes County,Texas
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Those little guys do love the sunflower seeds---they normally eat conifer seeds so I guess sunflower is a suitable substitution. The sunflower "heads" might work, at any rate lots of other birds should go for them, drawing in a possible nuthatch if there's one around...ya never know!
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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#137 |
Salamander
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Grimes County,Texas
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You lucky dog! I've never seen any nuthatches on my place before now. My friend who lives south and east of me (north of Houston) has seen the white-breasteds. Since they all like conifers (I think), I am surprised to see any at all this far west---not very many conifers here in the oakland savannah/ blackland prairie, though I have maybe four mature pines on my five acres.
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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#139 |
Offical Silphium Abuser
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Southeast Ohio
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Ditto--but now I'm sorry I missed last year's snowy owl irruption. They didn't get to our neighborhood (and this year we had an irruption of chipmunks!).
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#140 |
WG Fundraising Coordinator
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Kentucky
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We still have only the gregarious white-breasted nuthatches here but soon the red-breasted will be here. They are fun birds to watch. We've had the red-bellied woodpeckers and the downys here for a couple of weeks which always tells me winter's coming. The goldfinches have come out of the woods and are visiting the feeders now in flocks. I haven't seen any warblers for a while but we did have a flock of cedar waxwings come through, sadly one flew into a window and perished.
We've been hearing coyotes and owls at night now, I wonder if they get more active in colder weather. Deer and turkeys are definitely gathering in groups, getting ready for the winter. |
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