Birds at the feeders.

[smitty55]

There's been a big flock of Robins up the road from here for at least a week now.

Cheers

[JBen]

Thanks Nosey.
So far so good. Per our PMs there are some difficulties around the wee ones, but it's all about perspective.

The um, "better half" has never fond of my old tree and ice blue, silver and crystal decorations, she's more of a classic, old school country girl. So my old tree, household decor sits in boxes. Watching the birds at the feeders one day in December I had one of those "a-ha" moments. Set the tree up with decorations next to the feeders. We've enjoyed it all winter.

[Hunter John]

Love watching the backyard birds and likely spend too much time staring out the window. We get all the usual suspects you would expect but my favorite is the little Carolina wren that I see frequently and for a little guy they have a very loud and sharp beautiful song.

[jaycee]

Love watching the backyard birds and likely spend too much time staring out the window. We get all the usual suspects you would expect but my favorite is the little Carolina wren that I see frequently and for a little guy they have a very loud and sharp beautiful song.

Not very likely that you are seeing Carolina Wrens, their range is usually south of the great lakes.
They are slightly larger than a House Wren and have a very prominent white eye stripe.
What you are seeing is the House Wren, neat little birds , but also very nasty, when the male who arrives first cannot attract a mate, he packs all the area nesting sites [any small opening] with small twigs including any other bird house around. He apparently does this so other birds cannot nest in "his territory ".
The male also has a nasty habit of flying into my bluebird houses when the female is away from the nest, he pokes a hole in the bluebirds eggs and then systematically removes them one after the other from the house.
I have seen this on a number of years at our place, so has our neighbor across the road who is a very avid birder.

[Hunter John]

Nope. Definitely A Carolina , complete with white eye stripe. When I first spotted them about 10 years ago I looked it up in several bird ID books that I own ( yes , I am a bird nerd ) and I can positively say 100% that it is a Carolina.

[Hunter John]

Here is an Ontario birding web sight that I frequent and the Carolina Wren has been spotted and photographed near Ottawa.
https://sites.google.com/a/ontariobi...alleries/wrens

And I know several birders that have seen the Carolina at the Royal Botanical gardens and I live about 10 minutes from there.

[jaycee]

Nope. Definitely A Carolina , complete with white eye stripe. When I first spotted them about 10 years ago I looked it up in several bird ID books that I own ( yes , I am a bird nerd ) and I can positively say 100% that it is a Carolina.

We also live in unit 87 as you do and in the 40 years we have been here, have never seen a Carolina Wren.
Glad to hear that they are perhaps extending their range.

[mosquito]

Busy day at the feeder today:
lots of Juncos,
Mourning doves,
more than usual cardinals,
my annoyances the Bluejays have been joined by the blackbirds throwing food out on the ground so the squirrels will be happy (I have a raccoon baffle that keeps squirrels and all but he largest pushiest raccoons out) ,
of course the chickadees,
a few types of sparrows
some purple finches


and ...... drum role please.... what I consider the sign of spring .... a redwing blackbird.


Downy and Hairy woodpeckers just showed up too.