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Birds Everywhere!!!!

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chaffmj
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Here are some pics I took last week of some of the birds on our deck feeders.   Male purple finch.   Red breasted nuthatch with the purple finch.   Male goldfinch.

Duffman
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Birds have been coming back to the feeders in the last week in abundance. And apparently an owl fed overnight on a little opossum and left me a present on the deck.    

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🤭 birds are having a tough spring!!!

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I have a brown thrasher that came back again this year and a bunch of Harris sparrows. I never could figure out what the Harris sparrow were, they are so big I never looked at sparrow pages when trying to see what they were. They look more like a black headed grosbeak. I finally have red breasted grosbeaks again, have not seen them for years in any numbers. So far, so good. 

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On 5/15/2020 at 7:23 PM, chaffmj said:

 

I haven't either but people that live near me are seeing them so quit your crying smurfy. 

Just kidding! ?

:cry:? i'll quit now...……..seen one at the feeder yesterday!!!!!!!!!?

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Just had a strange one.    There was a bird that looked a lot like a hairy woodpecker sitting in the grass pecking away.   Flew away, was back in a very short time doing it some more.   Was not a flicker, they are brown with yellow.   This was black and white and robin sized.   Is this the evil sapsucker?   Eating ants?   

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I'm noticing the gold finches have disappeared. I had some coming to the feeders now basically none. i was thinking nesting but I looked them up and they don't nest until July.

  The other birds are going nuts a jar of jelly only lasts 3 days. 

Just would like to keep the tree rat out of the feeders.

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On 5/24/2020 at 8:51 AM, fishingstar said:

I'm noticing the gold finches have disappeared. I had some coming to the feeders now basically none. i was thinking nesting but I looked them up and they don't nest until July.

  The other birds are going nuts a jar of jelly only lasts 3 days. 

Just would like to keep the tree rat out of the feeders.

pellet rifle will discourage them.

 

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Once again almost all my birds have disappeared. I had my yard sprayed for mosquitoes, do you think there is any Correlation? Could it be a smell or something to do with the chemicals? 

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1 hour ago, Hawg said:

Once again almost all my birds have disappeared. I had my yard sprayed for mosquitoes, do you think there is any Correlation? Could it be a smell or something to do with the chemicals? 

Maybe??? No bugs for the birds to eat. There also nesting. Haven't had alot of birds either!

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Sure am overrun with dragonflies this year,  there must still be bugs in the air. Never seen so many dragonflies, I had a thought maybe all the gnats and other flying bugs won’t land in my grass so the air above the yard is a feast?!?

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9 hours ago, chaffmj said:

My guess is a phoebe. However the phoebe and the eastern kingbird do look a lot alike. 


I’m going with eastern phoebe after reading about both.  Small bird - smaller than how a kingbird is described.

 

4 hours ago, smurfy said:

this is a trick question isnt it??????????

 

It has been for me!!!!

 

Thanks guys!

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2 hours ago, Wanderer said:


I’m going with eastern phoebe after reading about both.  Small bird - smaller than how a kingbird is described.

 

 

It has been for me!!!!

 

Thanks guys!

 

We have phoebe's nesting in our yard and when they are perched they flick their tail a lot.  

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