Hi Carol, A guess would be that the fruits/seeds of the plant are "persistent", meaning they last a long time on the plant, and while Alaskan Cedar may not be a familiar for the local birds, they are into them now for whatever reason. Perhaps they're exploring novel food sources at this point in the season as their usual choices become depleted.
Marc Devokaitis On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 8:52 AM Carol Keeler <carolk...@adelphia.net> wrote: > I’m wondering why my birds have suddenly found an Alaskan Cedar so > interesting. I noticed several birds, Cardinals, Tree Sparrows, Chickadees > all sitting at the tips of a birch tree which is close to the Cedar. > They’d fly over to the Cedar and go in. More and more of my regular birds > came and seemed to check out the tree. At one time there was a Blue Jay, a > couple of male Cardinals, two Titmice, a Chickadee, Tree Sparrows, and > House Sparrows all sitting in the birch waiting to go in the Cedar. What’s > going on? I know the Cedar has little seed cones. I’ve never seen any > birds in the Cedar before. It was fascinating to watch. I usually see the > birds in the Norway spruces which are nearby, not the Cedar. There are no > feeders on that side of the house. Any ideas of what’s going on? > > Sent from my iPad > > -- > > 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/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/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/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
