Hi Meena and all,
While others have different birds, I have had the largest flock [for
me] of about 15 Goldfinches visiting the feeder for quite a while. the
only other visitors have been 2 Downys, 1 Nuthatch, Cardinals, House
Sparrows, An occasional House Finch or 2, Mourning Doves, Juncos, and
House Sparrows. I see the Titmouse if i spend enough time watching. We
seem to have a resident Coopers or Sharp Shin that empties the feeders
for long periods. i don't have good visibility in my home, but I hear
the Crows and have seen them mobbing it at a distance. Interestingly
enough, I hardly ever get Blue Jays at the feeder though I may hear
them. The creek across the street as had many Mallards that have been
there through out the winter.
Diana Whiting
On Feb 27, 2010, at 8:10 PM, Meena Haribal wrote:
Ken and all,
Sometimes ago I did post about lack of goldfinches in my areas.
Several people wrote they do have goldfinches at their feeders, but
several others wrote that they do not have any goldfinches. Now Ken
in spite of having a feeder reports lack of goldfinches. So it does
seem something interesting going on with goldfinches this year.
I spent nearly four hours trying to get snow off the drive, Still I
have removed just enough snow for my car to pass through the snow
tunnel. The snow bank and removal of snow reminded me of those large
icebergs and glaciers in Antarctica, and here they were only
miniatures.
While shoveling the first bird I heard as I came out of the garage
was a Pileated Woodpecker announcing his presence in my yard. He
went on for sometime.
Then came a flock of crows, crowing loudly they circled around in
random and went away towards Hawthorn orchards.
Tufted titmouses spent lot of time in the yard. One of them landed
few feet away from me and gave his piece of mind by spishing me for
some time.
Then came a group of some tumbling birds that hid into snow laden
yews. So I watched for birds to come out. First to appear on the top
of the yew was a female cardinal. Then second female cardinal who
dashed away to the other side of the road and the male cardinal
landed on the poplar behind me. Then I realised that there was a
territorial tiff between the females and male was ready to take
chances. But in this fight somehow two Tufted Titmouse got involved
and they were not happy with the cardinals.
A tufted titmouse was feeding along the tree bark and was
investigating a hole, probably for a cached seed or something, but a
Red-bellied landed on the same tree on the other side of the hole
and there was some angry interaction between them and Tufted
Titmouse had to leave the tree.
Tufted Titmouse were singing different kinds of songs or rather had
calls (cher cher) and I think that was probably some sort of
communication between a pair and they hung around for quite sometime.
A pair of Blue Jays also visited my yard at some point and were
giving typical blue Jay calls.
Again much later the crows came back again and circled around for a
while cawing and went away. Then I saw individual crows poking
around in the Norway spruces. I guess these are my resident crows.
At some point a flock of House finches flew overhead.
These were my bird observations for today while shoveling.
Meena
From: bounce-5364035-3493...@list.cornell.edu
[bounce-5364035-3493...@list.cornell.edu
] On Behalf Of Kenneth Victor Rosenberg [k...@cornell.edu]
Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2010 6:42 PM
To: Anne Marie Johnson; cb
Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Pine Siskin in Caroline
Hmm. I have had only one very sporadic goldfinch visitor all winter
at my feeders here in Northeast Ithaca. Today, during the continuous
snowfall, there WAS a mixed flock of 40 CEDAR WAXWINGS, 30 ROBINS,
10 STARLINGS, and 6 HOUSE FINCHES moving around the trees in my
neighborhood. The robins were singing a bit, adding to the songs of
cardinals, titmice, and the first singing junco.
KEN
On 2/27/10 1:55 PM, Anne Marie Johnson annemariejohn...@frontiernet.net
wrote:
A Pine Siskin joined the 30+ goldfinches on my feeders today.
Anne Marie Johnson
Caroline
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