Greetings MNbirders, With the recent cold snap activity at our feeder here in Grand Rapids increased over the weekend. We had a northern shrike attempt to catch unsuspecting birds; it fluttered about the feeder and dove, but missed, then returned for another try but eventually flew off. We had 30+ goldfinches, 7 common redpolls and 1 male hoary redpoll, and a single pine siskin all coming to the feeder. Also, after a long absence, a cardinal pair returned. Numbers of individual species seemed to have increased too with the cold; we had at least 20 chickadees and 8-10 blue jays, I gave up trying to count the number of red-breasted nuthatches.
Good birding, Wes Bailey & Courtney Kerns Grand Rapids, Itasca County -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20080122/d668350c/attachment.html
