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Birders

jpak

(41,763 posts) Sat Jan 28, 2017, 12:44 PM Jan 2017

The birds finally discovered my new feeder [View all]

Last edited Sat May 18, 2019, 05:49 PM - Edit history (29)

It's been up nearly a month - nothing.

Last weekend they all descended on it.

pine grosbeaks
juncos
chickadees
blue jays
titmice
hairy woodpeckers
downy woodpeckers
goldfinches
tree sparrows
white breasted nuthatches
red breasted nuthatches
cardinal!
winter resident robins
Bohemian waxwings!
Evening grosbeaks!
Starlings
Cedar waxwings
House finches
Mourning dove
Purple finches
Song sparrow
Chipping sparrows
Phoebes
Cowbirds
White-throated sparrow
White crowned sparrow
Indigo bunting
Rose breasted grosbeak
Ruby throated hummingbird
Catbird
Chestnut sided warbler
Northern parula warbler
Chimney swift
Yellow-bellied sapsucker
Kingbird
Wood Trush
Pine Ssikin
Carolina Wren
Common redpoll
Pine Warbler
Blue-headed vireo
Baltimore Oriole

had flyovers by:
bald eagle
rough legged hawk
Canada geese
Mallards
Turkey vulture
Nighthawk
Wild turkeys

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The birds *finally* discovered my new feeder [View all] jpak Jan 2017 OP

PICTURES! Skittles Jan 2017 #1

I have a cardinal there now - in the middle of a Maine winter jpak Jan 2017 #6

Yay shenmue Jan 2017 #2

expect a closer look at those raptors. mopinko Jan 2017 #3

Bgawk shenmue Jan 2017 #4

you should hear the racket. mopinko Jan 2017 #5

Neighbors have chickens jpak Jan 2017 #7

yeah, for a big raptor, songbirds not a big draw. mopinko Jan 2017 #8

It was definitely a rough-legged hawk jpak Jan 2017 #9

cool. i still have trouble w some of the raptors. mopinko Jan 2017 #10

Just had a big flock of robins in my crabapple tree jpak Feb 2017 #11

Just had a big flock of Bohemian Waxwings descend on my crabapple tree jpak Feb 2017 #12

Now just had 6 female pine grosbeaks and a male evening grosbeak at the crabtree jpak Feb 2017 #13

Starlings (new) and winter resident robins today. jpak Feb 2017 #14

Cedar waxwings (new). pine grosbeaks, and the blue jay family this AM jpak Feb 2017 #15

House finches this AM jpak Mar 2017 #16

A very sad mourning dove is hunkered down in the crab in the freezing rain jpak Mar 2017 #17

Purple finches and song sparrows this AM jpak Apr 2017 #18

FOY chipping sparrows this AM jpak Apr 2017 #19

The phoebes are back and fighting for territories in my back yeard jpak Apr 2017 #20

Cowbirds are hogging the feeder and keeping the purple finches at bay jpak Apr 2017 #21

FOY white-throated sparrow jpak Apr 2017 #22

Female Evening Grosbeak - and - White Crowned Sparrow this AM jpak May 2017 #23

indigo bunting just now - spectacular birdie jpak May 2017 #24

Wow!! WinkyDink Aug 2017 #32

While DU was down... jpak May 2017 #25

Last night I had a nighthawk flyover jpak May 2017 #26

where are you? barbtries Jul 2017 #27

Maine jpak Jul 2017 #28

NC barbtries Jul 2017 #29

Get a good bird guide (I like Peterson's Eastern Birds) and study it jpak Jul 2017 #30

thank you again barbtries Jul 2017 #31