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WG Fundraising Coordinator
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Kentucky
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Not a bird but just now I saw a red fox running across the field, over the lane into the woods and then back over the lane again with a friend, the two disappearing into the tall grass next to the sycamore grove. In the ten plus years we've been here we've never seen a fox, they are so fast!!!
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#592 | |
WG Hospitality & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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WG Hospitality & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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WG Hospitality & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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"If suburbia were landscaped with meadows, prairies, thickets or forests, or combinations of these, then the water would sparkle, fish would be good to eat again, birds would sing and human spirits would soar." ~ Lorrie Otto ~ A Native Backyard Blog ~ |
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#595 |
WG Fundraising Coordinator
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Kentucky
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I threw some sunflower seed out on the deck yesterday morning when it was 2 degrees out so the birds would have some energy against the cold. The feeders were mobbed so I gave them extra to go all around. We've had the usual goldfinch, titmouse, downy and red-bellied woodpeckers, white-breasted nuthatch and cardinals and added white-throated sparrow, junco and towhee to the winter mix. I just saw the first towhee yesterday and I usually miss seeing the juncos until I scatter seed on the ground.
I watched them out the window for awhile and snapped a few photos. turttle, I noticed how they fluffed up their feathers and kind of squatted down to keep their legs and feet warm, you could barely see their feet at all! The sparrows especially were cute little puff balls. It's minus 1 degree out there now, we are colder than Massachusetts right now. |
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WG Hospitality & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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So they are *white-throated* sparrows I've been seeing around here. Thanks.
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#597 |
Offical Silphium Abuser
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Southeast Ohio
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I think we've had white-throated sparrows here as well; I'll have to look more closely.
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#598 |
WG Fundraising Coordinator
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Kentucky
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The give-away for me are the yellow lores on either side of the bill. They seem to be the most common winter sparrow we have although they summer in Canada.
White-throated Sparrow, Identification, All About Birds - Cornell Lab of Ornithology |
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#599 |
Alternate POM Judge
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Maryland
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I always have lots of white throated sparrows in the winter. They have a distinctive whistle call. They are ground feeders and will come to platform feeders. They are one of the benefits of winter.
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WG Hospitality & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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