This afternoon, I spent some time in the back of my yard, looking for a small song bird that I'd earlier seen up in the trees. That was probably a House Finch, but the leaf litter below those trees was busy. Moving in after a Spotted Towhee was a White-throated Sparrow, both scratching around for bird seed. This was a new yard bird for me. And it's an especially gratifying one, as the White-throated Sparrow is among my favorite birds for all the singing it does in the woods around my wife's hometown in northern Minnesota.
Around the yard: My first yard junco of the season stopped by this morning and a scrub jay has been visiting, along with the magpies and Blue Jays, my platform feeder for in-shell peanuts. (The scrub jay is now noisily attacking the cruddy PetSmart suet that I recently purchased and that the woodpeckers seem to be avoiding.) At one point, it seemed to me that a magpie was dampening a peanut in my bird bath. At a minimum, it flew from the platform feeder to the bird bath, put the peanut down in the bath, took a few drinks, retrieved its food, then flew off. So perhaps it was only at the water for a drink. I couldn't tell. I've seen crows soften food in water, but not yet magpies. - Jared Del Rosso Centennial, CO -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/ff29deb1-ada7-4aa3-8c6a-8b11b0c420be%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
