Hi Meena and all, While others have different birds, I have had the largest flock [for me] of about 15 Goldfinches visiting the feeder for quite a while. the only other visitors have been 2 Downys, 1 Nuthatch, Cardinals, House Sparrows, An occasional House Finch or 2, Mourning Doves, Juncos, and House Sparrows. I see the Titmouse if i spend enough time watching. We seem to have a resident Coopers or Sharp Shin that empties the feeders for long periods. i don't have good visibility in my home, but I hear the Crows and have seen them mobbing it at a distance. Interestingly enough, I hardly ever get Blue Jays at the feeder though I may hear them. The creek across the street as had many Mallards that have been there through out the winter.
Diana Whiting On Feb 27, 2010, at 8:10 PM, Meena Haribal wrote: > Ken and all, > Sometimes ago I did post about lack of goldfinches in my areas. > Several people wrote they do have goldfinches at their feeders, but > several others wrote that they do not have any goldfinches. Now Ken > in spite of having a feeder reports lack of goldfinches. So it does > seem something interesting going on with goldfinches this year. > > I spent nearly four hours trying to get snow off the drive, Still I > have removed just enough snow for my car to pass through the snow > tunnel. The snow bank and removal of snow reminded me of those large > icebergs and glaciers in Antarctica, and here they were only > miniatures. > > While shoveling the first bird I heard as I came out of the garage > was a Pileated Woodpecker announcing his presence in my yard. He > went on for sometime. > > Then came a flock of crows, crowing loudly they circled around in > random and went away towards Hawthorn orchards. > > Tufted titmouses spent lot of time in the yard. One of them landed > few feet away from me and gave his piece of mind by spishing me for > some time. > > Then came a group of some tumbling birds that hid into snow laden > yews. So I watched for birds to come out. First to appear on the top > of the yew was a female cardinal. Then second female cardinal who > dashed away to the other side of the road and the male cardinal > landed on the poplar behind me. Then I realised that there was a > territorial tiff between the females and male was ready to take > chances. But in this fight somehow two Tufted Titmouse got involved > and they were not happy with the cardinals. > > A tufted titmouse was feeding along the tree bark and was > investigating a hole, probably for a cached seed or something, but a > Red-bellied landed on the same tree on the other side of the hole > and there was some angry interaction between them and Tufted > Titmouse had to leave the tree. > > Tufted Titmouse were singing different kinds of songs or rather had > calls (cher cher) and I think that was probably some sort of > communication between a pair and they hung around for quite sometime. > > A pair of Blue Jays also visited my yard at some point and were > giving typical blue Jay calls. > > Again much later the crows came back again and circled around for a > while cawing and went away. Then I saw individual crows poking > around in the Norway spruces. I guess these are my resident crows. > > At some point a flock of House finches flew overhead. > > These were my bird observations for today while shoveling. > > Meena > > From: bounce-5364035-3493...@list.cornell.edu > [bounce-5364035-3493...@list.cornell.edu > ] On Behalf Of Kenneth Victor Rosenberg [k...@cornell.edu] > Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2010 6:42 PM > To: Anne Marie Johnson; cb > Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Pine Siskin in Caroline > > Hmm. I have had only one very sporadic goldfinch visitor all winter > at my feeders here in Northeast Ithaca. Today, during the continuous > snowfall, there WAS a mixed flock of 40 CEDAR WAXWINGS, 30 ROBINS, > 10 STARLINGS, and 6 HOUSE FINCHES moving around the trees in my > neighborhood. The robins were singing a bit, adding to the songs of > cardinals, titmice, and the first singing junco. > > KEN > > > On 2/27/10 1:55 PM, "Anne Marie Johnson" <annemariejohn...@frontiernet.net > > wrote: > > A Pine Siskin joined the 30+ goldfinches on my feeders today. > > Anne Marie Johnson > Caroline > > > > -- > > 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/ > > -- > > > ********************************************** > Ken Rosenberg > Director of Conservation Science > Cornell Lab of Ornithology > Ithaca NY 14850 > > Phone: 607-254-2412 > cell: 607-342-4594 > k...@cornell.edu > www.birds.cornell.edu > -- 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/ --
