Slow winter

[eyeguy 54]

only went thru about 50 pounds of oils this winter.  very quiet 

[leech~~]

Oddly our feeders were very quiet this winter. We have noticed a pair of Red squirrels living close by and the last time we had a Red he would hang at the feeders and scare everything away birds and grey squirrels. We use to have about 5-6 grey squirrels around the feeders all winter. This year we have not seen a single one. To bad I sold my 22 or those two would be going where the last one did!

Edited March 5, 2016 by leech~~

[RebelSS]

You can have all of the tree rats from down here ya want!!!! I'll box 'em up and mail 'em to ya!!!!!!!!!!

[lovebigbluegills]

My feeders have been more active than the past couple years, same kinds of birds just a few more..

Squirrels don't last long around here 

[Sturg]

It's been very slow here as well.  I have one pair of cardinals (2 or 3 times a week), a few juncos, chickadees, and english sparrows.  There are at least 3 squirrels but they haven't really been a problem this year.  I haven't seen any finches all winter.

[Dotch]

Steady bird activity at the seed and suet feeders, just not large numbers. Blue jays, nuthatches, chickadees, downies, hairies, red-bellies, juncos and as always too many house sparrows. Ear corn feeder has had 3 or 4 fox squirrels, blue jays and the red-bellies. A couple female cardinals clean up after the squirrels on the ground as do the pheasants. The goldfinches have made an occasional appearance, only a few at a time. Went through 3 or 4 boxes of suet cakes, maybe 20# of finch blend, a 40# bag of sunflower and am working on about 90# of free Birder's Blend that was expired. Haven't fed it before but the price was right. 

[eyeguy 54]

bought 2 boxes of suet and still have 1 1/2. hopefully it will pick up again soon

 

[eyeguy 54]

[Early Riser]

I would say it is slower down here at our place in the cities. We have a few woodpeckers at the deer suet and a bunch of chickadees. The last few days a few juncos showed up, along with a female cardinal. 

Up in Hovland we had a great season for pine grosbeaks. There were dozens of them over the holidays. We also enjoyed the pine siskins, and all the rest of the regular chickadees, blue jays, nuthatches and different varieties of woodpeckers. We had a few bonus kit fox and flying squirrels around after dark hitting the sunflower seeds this past fall and winter seasons as well. The downside to the fox setting up shop on our property is that we don't have grouse wandering in to feed this year. 

When we were living in our home up there, I kept upwards of 40-50 pine grosbeaks around through daily ground feeding. Up until this year we hadn't seen good numbers of them around our specific area in many years.