Re: [cayugabirds-l] Juncos learn new trick, Lab feeder favs
Greetings! In my backyard, juncos use all the feeders with perches—the silo and tube feeders filled with black sunflower seeds and the tube feeders with niger seeds—especially when the snow is deep. Otherwise, they primarily eat the feeder spillage on the ground. The only feeders they don't utilize are ones without perches such as the bags with niger sides, the suet feeders, nut feeders, and the collapsible sunflower seed feeders. I've got my usual gang of chickadees, cardinals, White-breasted Nuthatches, titmice, jays, doves, Downy, Red-bellied, and Hairy Woodpeckers, Song Sparrows, House Sparrows, House Finches, crows, and a few Common Redpolls and two Pine Siskins. A sharpie swooped by a few minutes ago but left without a catch despite the large numbers of small birds and Mourning Doves out there, Perhaps it will try again. Candace 14:29, 8°F, snow, cloudy, wind 0-10 mph NE, visibility poor to 0.5 miles On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Caroline Manring wrote: > The Juncos that have frequented my porch floor under the feeder for a few > years have started coming to the feeder perches! These perches are about > shoulder-height on a hanging cylindrical feeder, two floors up on a back > porch downtown. I was very surprised. > > I think it might be because the usual cloud of House Sparrows has departed > for somebody else's porch, and with just a few Chickadees and a Titmouse > left, no one's knocking enough seed down onto the floor for the Juncos > anymore. > > I'd never seen Juncos come to a hanging feeder, high up, and perch while > they eat. Anybody else's Juncos doing similar tricks? > > Also, my mother's Tree Sparrows in Skaneateles have been perching on and > eating from the suet (also hanging shoulder-height). It seems these > "ground" birds have more tricks up their sleeves than I thought. > > At the Lab bird garden today, some highlights were PURPLE FINCH female, and > our favorite FIELD SPARROW vagabond. Yesterday a pair of COMMON RAVENS flew > over Sapsucker calling to each other. > > Caroline Manring > Ithaca downtown > -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Juncos learn new trick, Lab feeder favs
The Juncos here at my house regularly use the perch on the hanging feeders. Diana Whiting On Jan 22, 2011, at 9:34 PM, chuck gibson wrote: > Juncos have been eating from my sock feered for the last two years. > - Original Message - > From: Caroline Manring > To: cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu > Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 5:55 PM > Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Juncos learn new trick, Lab feeder favs > > The Juncos that have frequented my porch floor under the feeder for a few > years have started coming to the feeder perches! These perches are about > shoulder-height on a hanging cylindrical feeder, two floors up on a back > porch downtown. I was very surprised. > > I think it might be because the usual cloud of House Sparrows has departed > for somebody else's porch, and with just a few Chickadees and a Titmouse > left, no one's knocking enough seed down onto the floor for the Juncos > anymore. > > I'd never seen Juncos come to a hanging feeder, high up, and perch while they > eat. Anybody else's Juncos doing similar tricks? > > Also, my mother's Tree Sparrows in Skaneateles have been perching on and > eating from the suet (also hanging shoulder-height). It seems these "ground" > birds have more tricks up their sleeves than I thought. > > At the Lab bird garden today, some highlights were PURPLE FINCH female, and > our favorite FIELD SPARROW vagabond. Yesterday a pair of COMMON RAVENS flew > over Sapsucker calling to each other. > > Caroline Manring > Ithaca downtown -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Juncos learn new trick, Lab feeder favs
Juncos have been eating from my sock feered for the last two years. - Original Message - From: Caroline Manring To: cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 5:55 PM Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Juncos learn new trick, Lab feeder favs The Juncos that have frequented my porch floor under the feeder for a few years have started coming to the feeder perches! These perches are about shoulder-height on a hanging cylindrical feeder, two floors up on a back porch downtown. I was very surprised. I think it might be because the usual cloud of House Sparrows has departed for somebody else's porch, and with just a few Chickadees and a Titmouse left, no one's knocking enough seed down onto the floor for the Juncos anymore. I'd never seen Juncos come to a hanging feeder, high up, and perch while they eat. Anybody else's Juncos doing similar tricks? Also, my mother's Tree Sparrows in Skaneateles have been perching on and eating from the suet (also hanging shoulder-height). It seems these "ground" birds have more tricks up their sleeves than I thought. At the Lab bird garden today, some highlights were PURPLE FINCH female, and our favorite FIELD SPARROW vagabond. Yesterday a pair of COMMON RAVENS flew over Sapsucker calling to each other. Caroline Manring Ithaca downtown -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
RE: [cayugabirds-l] Juncos learn new trick, Lab feeder favs
The feeders off my deck are the second storey from the sloping ground below (which is why the flying squirrels like them so much). When I have no other feed on the ground or on the deck, my juncos do perch occasionally on the perches of my hanging tube feeder. But, no juncos today, just redpolls! Kevin From: bounce-7680205-3493...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-7680205-3493...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Caroline Manring Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 5:55 PM To: cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Juncos learn new trick, Lab feeder favs The Juncos that have frequented my porch floor under the feeder for a few years have started coming to the feeder perches! These perches are about shoulder-height on a hanging cylindrical feeder, two floors up on a back porch downtown. I was very surprised. I think it might be because the usual cloud of House Sparrows has departed for somebody else's porch, and with just a few Chickadees and a Titmouse left, no one's knocking enough seed down onto the floor for the Juncos anymore. I'd never seen Juncos come to a hanging feeder, high up, and perch while they eat. Anybody else's Juncos doing similar tricks? Also, my mother's Tree Sparrows in Skaneateles have been perching on and eating from the suet (also hanging shoulder-height). It seems these "ground" birds have more tricks up their sleeves than I thought. At the Lab bird garden today, some highlights were PURPLE FINCH female, and our favorite FIELD SPARROW vagabond. Yesterday a pair of COMMON RAVENS flew over Sapsucker calling to each other. Caroline Manring Ithaca downtown -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Juncos learn new trick, Lab feeder favs
The Juncos that have frequented my porch floor under the feeder for a few years have started coming to the feeder perches! These perches are about shoulder-height on a hanging cylindrical feeder, two floors up on a back porch downtown. I was very surprised. I think it might be because the usual cloud of House Sparrows has departed for somebody else's porch, and with just a few Chickadees and a Titmouse left, no one's knocking enough seed down onto the floor for the Juncos anymore. I'd never seen Juncos come to a hanging feeder, high up, and perch while they eat. Anybody else's Juncos doing similar tricks? Also, my mother's Tree Sparrows in Skaneateles have been perching on and eating from the suet (also hanging shoulder-height). It seems these "ground" birds have more tricks up their sleeves than I thought. At the Lab bird garden today, some highlights were PURPLE FINCH female, and our favorite FIELD SPARROW vagabond. Yesterday a pair of COMMON RAVENS flew over Sapsucker calling to each other. Caroline Manring Ithaca downtown -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
