Bird Watching: Help With ID, 1 by MaypopLaurel

MaypopLaurel wrote:
I am overwhelmed by the warm welcome, and glad to meet you all, even if you're for the birds. I guess you can say that I've always loved birds but bet they have spent more time watching me than me them. Thank you for inviting me in...I feel honored.

Nanny, so we share birds in common? Prepare for lots of questions. Do you have whippoorwills? I have never seen them, only hear them at night. Love drifting off to sleep listening to their call. We have lots of owls too. Great supplies of field mice for birds of prey. Your sister lives half way between my Atlanta home and Mypop, our cottage and garden in Cleveland, GA. I'm smack dab in the city when I'm not barefoot and nekkid in the country. That's such a lie (the nekkid part). If you were speaking to sis you could come help me out with my bird id's. Think about it.

Mrs. Ed, is there a thread I should be pointed to regarding Nanny's pileated (sp. not with two l's?). Regarding city birds vs. country birds...we have much more interesting birds in the city (5.25 million pop.). I can even name a bunch. We saw limited varieties of birds that were not birds of prey for years up here in the foothills. We are seeing more varieties of birds recently. Two pairs of golden finches are here for the first time, though we have always had flocks at our feeders in Atlanta. A pair of cardinals, though we have families that live and nest year after year in Atlanta. Several kinds of red finches in Atlanta, but I've never seen one here. BTW, we are only 85 miles from Atlanta. Perhaps as development encroaches on the birds of prey we will have more of the others on our doorstep? It really is noticeable. Saw the first cardinals ever (nineteen years) in our yard and baths this year. We have stopped feeding because we have many houses, baths and habitat. Tons of wild sunflowers, trumpet vine, evening primrose and cone flowers. Worms, beetles and bugs galore (unfortunately). lol The feeders were bringing in squirrels like crazy. Since I'm mostly about veggies and fruit, I could not tolerate that. We grow flowers all over the food to attract birds. Thanks again,
Laurel