Bird Watching: Snowy Day Bird Count 3-8-2008, 1 by tabasco

tabasco wrote:
We are in the middle of a "Blizzard" according to the weather service, as is much of the mid-west and eastern parts of the country--so bird feeders are busy-busy!

A good day for a Snowy Day bird count for everyone!

Here's our list for the last 24 hours (a pretty good one for us!)


Visiting our yard/feeders in the last 24 hours:

Cardinals (about 30 at 7:30 a.m.)
Titmice
Nuthatch
European Starling
Red-winged blackbird
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpeckers (one came by after lunch to check out the action--rare visit this winter)
Red bellied woodpecker
Hairy woodpecker
Downy woodpecker
American Robin
Carolina Chickadee
Tree Sparrow
White-throated sparrow
Song sparrow
Fox Sparrow (2 are feeding on the deck)
House sparrow
Ruby-crowned kinglet (one has been visiting quite often lately)
House finch
Goldfinch
Carolina wren
Blue jay
Common Grackle
Eastern Towhee
Junco
Mourning Dove
Crow
Brown Creeper (has been checking out the suet but we see them on the trees often)


No hawks
No owls
No bluebirds
No Wild Turkey
yet, anyway!!

We have our feeders filled to the brim and we put out extra suet cakes and saucers of BOSS around the yard. I also sprinkled some BOSS and Millet into the evergreen shrubs to help out the ground feeders hiding from the wind and snow.

Who's visiting your feeders this weekend? And how's your weather?!!

(Not a recent photo, but you get the idea of some of our feeders. The snow is 10-12 inches deep today)

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