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Birding Reports => Southern Ontario Reports => Topic started by: Margaret on January 30, 2008, 01:43:48 PM

Title: Birding at breakfast
Post by: Margaret on January 30, 2008, 01:43:48 PM

Both Sunday and Monday this week no birds in the back garden in Brampton before 9am. (This is unusual, normally have a couple of dozen, half of them juncos!)
Today at 7:30am, bitter cold and very windy, had 2 goldfinches at the niger feeder, and a female cardinal on the larger feeder. She sat there for 10 mins. seemed to be sheltering from the wind.

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Post by: northerner2 on January 30, 2008, 02:42:17 PM

I noticed the same thing, but I suspect it was because it was milder those days. (Wasn't it?)

The usual throng are back, now, because we are in a blizzard, on and off..

Title: Birding in the afternoon
Post by: Margaret on January 30, 2008, 09:14:38 PM

Good selection of birds this aft in addition to the juncos: 2 chickadees, house finches, house sparrows, 2 mourning doves,
goldfinches and an uncommon visitor at my feeder - a blue jay. (These birds are often heard in the area but rarely stop for a bite.)

Title: My breakfast birds today (Jan 31 08)
Post by: Craig McL on January 31, 2008, 11:14:28 AM

My breakfast  birds today (Jan 31 08) wear down also?? Hear in old Whitby

Junco 8
W.T. Sparrow 1
House sparrow 4( down from 13)
Mooring dove 4 ( down from 17)
Red Breasted Nuthatch 1
Wight Breasted Nuthatch 1
House Finch 5
Blue Jay 2 ( do to feeding peanuts to them)
Cardinal 2
Black C Chickadee 4

I count them as I am making breakfast  so some moorings its still to dark .. haha
 :lol: