Hi All-- I have had, like, almost no birds at my Northfield backyard feeder all winter--just an occasional nuthatch, chickadee, and woodpecker. On many days I noticed no feeder birds. On 4 April 2008, a huge flock of Dark-eyed Juncos descended on the feeder. I banded 35 on that afternoon. The next day I banded 54 additional juncos (with no retraps). What I found interesting was the sharp increase of local residents that accompanied the juncos, almost as if the migrating juncos reminded the residents of the location of my feeders. I banded a Black-capped Chickadee that I originally banded on 16 August 2007; a Downy Woodpecker originally banded on 22 September 2007; and a White-breasted Nuthatch banded on 27 October 2007. Other birds banded included an Eastern Phoebe, 2 Brown Creepers, and a robin.
Today, 6 April, the feeder is again empty, with just one Pine Siskin banded before the rain. dan -- Dan or Erika Tallman Northfield, Minnesota http://danerika.googlepages.com/home http://picasaweb.google.com/danerika danerika at gmail.com ".... the best shod travel with wet feet" "Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes ...."--Thoreau -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20080406/e98f9651/attachment.html
