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 carolinemanr...@gmail.com 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/ --
[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/ --
