Today I saw (birds) 2018 - Wildlife Gardeners

linrose · 01-14-2018, 04:23 PM

Thought I'd start a new year off with a new bird photo thread. We had a snowstorm on Thursday and snow (and ice) is still on the ground which is rare around here. Looks like cold all next week except tomorrow is supposed to get up to 38 and snow again. Twenties for the duration the rest of the week. Power went out last night and we haven't been out since Thursday morning.

Snow brings the birds to the feeders which is at least one bright side to all of this. The white-throated sparrows are back as are the juncos. Bluebirds are coming around for water and I put out mealworms and fruit snacks for the first time which they discovered. The new gazebo bird feeder is a great hangout for all, sunflower seeds in the tube and mealworms and bluebird nuggets all around. It's a nice shelter too. In that photo there's a bluebird snatching a nugget, a goldfinch, a nuthatch on an Eggert's sunflower stem and the head of a cardinal hiding behind the sunflower tube.

linrose · 01-14-2018, 04:27 PM

Oops, not a nuthatch, I meant a titmouse. I think my brain is frozen!

havalotta · 01-15-2018, 12:29 PM

Nice you have such a variety of visitors. I don't feed much beyond the emptying of my indoor bird dishes. I hate to see anything go to waste so lay a trail of their leftovers upon the porch rail. All I've been seeing are a pair of chickadees but I so welcome their daily visit.

turttle · 01-17-2018, 03:41 PM

I have ten inches of snow since this morning and it is still coming down. I have a dozen juncos, at least six bluebirds, and assorted titmice, chickadees, Carolina wrens, downy and red bellied woodpeckers, cardinals, yellow rumps, pine warblers, purple finches, goldfinches, chipping and whited throated sparrows, mourning doves, a hermit thrush, a ruby crowned kinglet and a couple of pine siskins. I may have missed a few.

Unfortunately it is snowing too hard to get nice pictures of birds, but I am very popular today!

linrose · 01-19-2018, 12:36 PM

Nice variety turttle! I think I saw a hermit thrush on the serviceberry the other day. The breast was heavily spotted and he looked as though he had jowls so I'm not sure those markings peg him correctly but of course I didn't have my camera around to capture a photo. He looked more like a wood thrush to me but I know they don't overwinter here.

Six bluebirds might mean three nests-to-be? I'm waiting for a thaw to put up another bluebird box out in the field before February in case we have more this year. They sure do like the mealworms and bluebird suet nuggets I've been putting out in this cold snowy weather. Before the snow and cold they would visit the birdbath. I did see a patch of bare ground today though, yippee!

01-14-2018, 04:23 PM	#1
linrose WG Fundraising Coordinator Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Kentucky	Today I saw (birds) 2018 Thought I'd start a new year off with a new bird photo thread. We had a snowstorm on Thursday and snow (and ice) is still on the ground which is rare around here. Looks like cold all next week except tomorrow is supposed to get up to 38 and snow again. Twenties for the duration the rest of the week. Power went out last night and we haven't been out since Thursday morning. Snow brings the birds to the feeders which is at least one bright side to all of this. The white-throated sparrows are back as are the juncos. Bluebirds are coming around for water and I put out mealworms and fruit snacks for the first time which they discovered. The new gazebo bird feeder is a great hangout for all, sunflower seeds in the tube and mealworms and bluebird nuggets all around. It's a nice shelter too. In that photo there's a bluebird snatching a nugget, a goldfinch, a nuthatch on an Eggert's sunflower stem and the head of a cardinal hiding behind the sunflower tube. Attached Thumbnails __________________ “To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.” ― Terry Tempest Williams

01-14-2018, 04:27 PM	#2
linrose WG Fundraising Coordinator Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Kentucky	Oops, not a nuthatch, I meant a titmouse. I think my brain is frozen! __________________ “To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.” ― Terry Tempest Williams

01-15-2018, 12:29 PM	#3
havalotta WG Prize & Gift Coordinator Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Michigan	Nice you have such a variety of visitors. I don't feed much beyond the emptying of my indoor bird dishes. I hate to see anything go to waste so lay a trail of their leftovers upon the porch rail. All I've been seeing are a pair of chickadees but I so welcome their daily visit. __________________ The successful woman is the woman that had the chance and took it! A walk among the elusive Whitetail Deer

01-17-2018, 03:41 PM	#4
turttle Curious George & UAOKA recipient Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Chapel Hill, NC	I have ten inches of snow since this morning and it is still coming down. I have a dozen juncos, at least six bluebirds, and assorted titmice, chickadees, Carolina wrens, downy and red bellied woodpeckers, cardinals, yellow rumps, pine warblers, purple finches, goldfinches, chipping and whited throated sparrows, mourning doves, a hermit thrush, a ruby crowned kinglet and a couple of pine siskins. I may have missed a few. Unfortunately it is snowing too hard to get nice pictures of birds, but I am very popular today! __________________ There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, this is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar. - Lord Byron Turttle's pollinator garden

01-19-2018, 12:36 PM	#5
linrose WG Fundraising Coordinator Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Kentucky	Nice variety turttle! I think I saw a hermit thrush on the serviceberry the other day. The breast was heavily spotted and he looked as though he had jowls so I'm not sure those markings peg him correctly but of course I didn't have my camera around to capture a photo. He looked more like a wood thrush to me but I know they don't overwinter here. Six bluebirds might mean three nests-to-be? I'm waiting for a thaw to put up another bluebird box out in the field before February in case we have more this year. They sure do like the mealworms and bluebird suet nuggets I've been putting out in this cold snowy weather. Before the snow and cold they would visit the birdbath. I did see a patch of bare ground today though, yippee! __________________ “To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.” ― Terry Tempest Williams

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