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Birding Reports => Backyard Birding => Topic started by: Reuven_M on October 03, 2010, 10:26:55 AM

Title: Feeders very busy!
Post by: Reuven_M on October 03, 2010, 10:26:55 AM

Only put up the bird feeder last weekend, and already had at least the following visit:
1 mourning dove
2 downy woodpecker
4 chickadees
3 cardinals
3 blue jays
1 of each nuthatch
2 goldfinches
3 white-throated and 1 white-crowned sparrows
Hopefully I'll get fox sparrows and towhees stopping over like last year :D

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Post by: Axeman on October 03, 2010, 11:21:31 AM

We get Towhees in the summer...are they not that far south in their breeding range? It's the one bird I know of where both male and female are striking...

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Post by: Reuven_M on October 03, 2010, 11:24:00 AM

Towhees breed out in the country mostly, I only get them in migration

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Post by: Reuven_M on October 07, 2010, 07:25:40 PM

Tons of birds coming to the feeders in the past few days including at least:
2 downy woodpecker
2 white-breasted nuthatch
4 chickadee
3 white-throated sparrow
4 white-crowned sparrow
1 junco
2 goldfinch
3 house sparrow
2 blue jay
2 grackles
3 mourning dove
3 cardinal
 :D  :D  :D

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Post by: Raven11:11 on October 21, 2010, 07:23:41 PM

1 young red breasted woodpecker
20+  chickadee
Several white-crowned sparrows
25+ on and off junco
4 or so goldfinch
30+ house sparrow
3 blue jay
2 grackles - not recently* 2 months**
6 mourning dove - had 13 or so all summer !
2 cardinal - couple.  All year round.  But were missing these past 2 months.
 8)  8)  8)  :)  :)

Title: Busy feeders
Post by: Leslie Kinrys on October 21, 2010, 08:25:24 PM

I have three feeders (seed mix, nyger, suet). Also, I have a birdbath, which only gets put away when the water starts to freeze. Over the last few days I've had:

2 Fox Sparrows
White-throated Sparrows
Juncos
1 male, 1 female Purple Finch
Goldfinches and House Finches
Chickadees
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Cardinal flock of at least 9 birds
Mourning Dove
male and female Downy Woodpeckers
1 male Hairy Woodpecker
And, 1 Cooper's Hawk!