Well I heard a junco singing today. It jolted my listening brain awake more so than the Titmice have.
And by the way, the forecast is for quite a warm March. Happy Hearing. Linda. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 5, 2013, at 7:28 PM, "W. Larry Hymes" <[email protected]> wrote: > The birds around our place were quite vocal this morning. Two cardinals were > doing a little dueling, and the house finches were singing, as well as a > titmouse. If this portends an earlier spring, please let it be a very > gradual warm up. We certainly don't want a repeat of the unusually warm > weather of last March, which resulted in devastation of the apple and cherry > crops from the very cold nights that occurred after the trees had blossomed. > > On another note, in response to Bill McAneny's query about junco numbers, we > have had 20+ all winter, and on occasion have topped 30. We always have good > numbers of juncos, but this year has been higher than normal. We use to > "salt" the yard with mixed seed, but this year at our son's suggestion we > switched to white millet. Before this, every time we would throw out mixed > seed the deer would come along and lap up most of it. They don't have much > success gleaning the tiny white millet seed, thus leaving most for the juncos > and other ground-feeding species. > > Larry > > -- > > ================================ > W. Larry Hymes > 120 Vine Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 > (H) 607-277-0759, [email protected] > ================================ > > > -- > > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm > > ARCHIVES: > 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html > 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds > 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html > > Please submit your observations to eBird: > http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ > > -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
