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[mystreba]

Does anyone else enjoy backyard birds? I have numerous feeders that I keep stocked with sunflower chips, safflower seeds, thistle, mealworms and suet. We get all the regulars - chickadees, finches, titmouses, doves, starlings, cardinals, jays, robins, junkos, sparrows, ruby-throated hummingbirds, hairy and downy woodpeckers, etc. But we also get the occasional thrush, veery, sapsucker, brown creeper, pileated woodpecker, northern flicker, red-bellied woodpecker, nuthatch, carolina wren, bluebird, warbler, towhee, redwing blackbird and cowbird. My favorite is the catbird - they follow me around the yard as I work and they sing up a storm.

Living close to Baltimore, I'm very frustrated that I have yet to attract a single oriole (the bird, that is. I'd be a little concerned if I attracted a baseball player to my backyard.)

Anyone else get interesting birds?

 

[BKBrown]

Yes - we had all kinds of birds ---- had to stop feeding on the back porch when a 7 1/2' TEDDY decided to amble up the front steps and go around to the feeders.:thumbdown: We know he was that tall because he had his nose on top of our ceiling hugger fan while standing flat footed on his hind legs. (YES we were here and saw him) Too dark for good pictures. -- I still throw seed out on the other side of the drive, but don't feed on the porch anymore.

 

[BKBrown]

Had some little ones in the yard yesterday ! :thumbsup:

 

[BKBrown]

Didn't get these in the last one -- Chicks are on the ground by older birds !

 

[mystreba]

They look mighty tasty!

 

[David]

We attract orioles by cutting a orange cross ways and stick on nails that are on a post after orioles eat orange we put grape jelly in tuna cans the orioles love this and so do other birds like cardinals, house finches, robins . We have had them build nests right in the trees in our back yard fun to watch them build. they eat a lot of grape jelly. but grape jelly is cheap. put oranges out in mid april.

 

[RockHound]

We watched a very clever squirrel find out how to get sunflower seeds out of our squirrel proof birdfeeder. He would climb the pole and then reach over and grasp the perch and reach in and get seed. It was so comical we just let him help himself. I failed to get a picture or a video though but I should have, it was so funny.:laughing:

 

[173abn]

lots of turkey around me ,have even seen a quail.have a couple species of owl in my woods.like watching red tail hawks and turkey vultures.also have indigo buntings and several species of flycatchers.have a feeder for the rubythroats and have two species of orioles that nest in my woods.brown thrashers and cat birds as well as cuckoos,rufous sided tohoees and chickadees ,titmouse and many species of sparrows.have the barn and roughwinged swallows and nighthawks.I don't usually feed in summer except for the hummers.I cut grass today and am watching two brownthrashers ,an indigo bunting a titmouse ,flycatcher and several sparrows catch insects for their young.there is a federal lake about 5m from me where I usually fish that have bald eagles nesting as well as great blue heron.I even saw osprey there one year. I love watching birds and keep a life list. russ

 

[BKBrown]

Saw a Juvenile Red Tail Hawk just the other day standing in the road just below our house munching on a snake :thumbsup: - We sat there and watched in the car about 10' away -- he finally decided to move and flew a short distance away -- probably went back to finish when we were gone.