Evening Grosbeaks. Sometimes erroneously called Yellow Finches. Beautiful. I buy 25 lbs. of Black oil sunflower seeds for $16.00. They are going through a bag a week right now. Today I took fresh water out to the bird bath and one of them sat right there on the rim and watched me while I refilled it, then jumped in and took a bath.
My feeders are being swarmed by these spectacular birds...
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nelly136
perhaps you could plant some of those seeds then you or the birds can harvest the heads
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restrangled
Wow Gregor, I'm envious. My feeders have been left for now with just an occasional Jay or Cardinal.
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Heaven
Cool! The robins, house finches, and red-winged blackbirds are back (among many others). I love hearing the bird songs.
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carla
Lucky you! We have regular goldfinches here and they love liatris (blazing star)! I get a whole flock here in fall and they are quite comical to watch. I always leave my flowers all winter so the birds have something to eat in case the feeders are empty for awhile.
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moshe
I like to watch birds, too. I was thinking the other day how I haven't seen a Meadowlark since I left the farm on the Illinois prairie in 1970. Redwing blackbirds I see from time to time, but not Meadowlarks. We have burrowing owls where I live and you can walk up to within 6 feet of them and they just stare you down. I was watching a big colony of fugitive Monk Parrots last week. They build a big communal nest about 30 ft up in a tree. They were as happy as OutLaw with a case of Molson beer and a bucket of KFC.
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truthlover
There were a lot of grosbeak here but as the clear cutting took their feeding and nesting sites they seem to be heading to feeders for nutrition.
They are known here as a deep woods bird and are truly wonderful with a very pretty melody when wanting their food to be delivered...
Last year had two swooping barn swallows - deep, deep blue, almost black and so graceful wanting to build a nest in my mailbox so I had to tape off the opening and they went -- hope they come back this year -- havent been around for years...
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Elsewhere
Very cool!
Something I like to buy is a 40 lb sack of corn used by deer hunters. The big birds swallow the corn whole and the small birds break the kernels into smaller pieces and eat those.
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Gregor
Nelly,
I could grow some sunflowers but they look like hell by the time they go to seed then I have to deal with the dead stalks, etc. My garden area is not very large. Most of the inexpensive mixes contain a lot of millet which most birds seem to ignore
Else,
feed corn is pretty cheap, I will try some but I already have a squirrel problem. Right now there are two of them who access the feeder from some overhanging branches of a big walnut tree. I will be pruning them back today.
Moshe,
We had a visiting group of red wing black birds a couple of weeks ago that hung around for two days. Very
striking color with the yellow band on the red epaulets.
I also have feed trays just below the three small windows in my tool shed. I take the G kids in there and we can watch the birds close up.
