Chicks are growing nicely. We had a slight frost this morning. Sunny but very cold.
Love your updates.
Jim
Love your updates.
Jim
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Late yesterday evening I filled my bird feeders for the last time till next October. I love sit in my easy chair in the evenings and weekend mornings watching the birds feed and working on models. There’s been some beautiful birds feed here wish I would have took more pics. Maybe this fall I’ll focus more on it. Here’s some that I took this winter and yesterday.
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Great stuff. Quite exotic to us in the UK....are the red ones cardinals? The pair in the second picture look like woodpeckers? I get greater spotted woodpeckers in my garden too. Nearest I get to cardinals are goldfinches.....at least they are quite colourful, but not as splendid as the cardinals!Comment
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Tim. In the second pics is two Hairy Wood Peckers the others pics are Cardinals, Cickadees, TitMouse, and others like finches.Comment
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Don’t get many of those round here. We get titmice by the hundredweight. Great, Blue, Long tailed, Cold, and Willow Tits all show up regularly. I’d be hard pressed to see a chickadee and not break into a WC Fields impression though :tongue-out3:Comment
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We usually get greater woodpecker, longtailed/great/blue tits and loads of house sparrows which tend to chase off the othersComment
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Yep, sparrow central here as well. We get a good fifty plus at times....Comment
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Tim & Gerry. I have removed the offending posts from Gerry and myself, as it was only going to go one way and also detracted from Lee's thread. Hope this is ok with you both.Comment
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Hi Lee
The weather looks as if the birds will appreciate your efforts. It is quite exciting to see what the food attracts. I reckon our feathered friends need all the help we can give them.
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I started feeding the birds about a yr ago now its twice a day, greedy buggers lol
Most exotic is a woodpecker, but all welcome. My cats are too lazy to have a go at them.Comment
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Wait till you get to the stage that we've got to - buying seed by the 12.5 kg, peanuts by the 25kg and fatballs by the 150 box, about every 2 months - 4 feed stations (2 front garden & 2 back garden) :upside: they still empty them within three days (2 of the seed feeders are over a foot deep!:surprised
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Thanks for the complements Guy’s. I’ve used around 75 pounds of seed this year. I just stared using the suet cake a couple weeks ago my Mother in law gave it to me. That cold winter day it was -14 degrees with 13” of snow on that’s the most birds I’ve seen feeding since I started feeding them about 20 years ago.
so Bob your right they need a lot of help in the winter months. I’ll try to get a pic of Red Bellied Woodpecker. Those are Downy Woodpeckers in the pics they like that Suet Cake. Here’s a pic I took just before I came in for the evening.Comment
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Hi Lee, I'm a "Big Bellied Human" can I have some cake too? :tongue-out3: :tongue-out2::tongue-out:
:thumb2:.........got all the varieties you mentioned and Gross Beaks and Cross Bills as well..........My Missus chases off the Stellar Jays as they scare off all the smaller birds and take over the feeder and generally make a mess all over our deck. My favorite little bird is the Nuthatch....we have both varieties as well as Pine Siskins.......smallest birds out there and they try to bully the finches or anyone else that comes to the feeder. Great fun to sit in the window having our coffee and watching the drama unfold. Rick H.
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