Bird Watching Club

Teka

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Wren44

Wow! Really beautiful.

Wren44

We had a little tiny hanging bird feeder meant for chickadees and wrens. We heard a kerwhompf! and had no idea what it was at the time. DH came home and pointed out the bird feeder was on the ground in pieces. Then we connected it to the flickers that had flown by the house earlier. Don't know if they thought they could get the seeds out or just carry the whole thing off.

Hortense

The thump may have been a hawk going after small birds and knocking the feeder off in its effort. I have them grabbing prey from my feeding areas regularly. If I don't see them, I find clumps of feathers. Once as I was filling a feeder I saw a dove tear by with a Sharp Shin hawk in close pursuit. The hawk's wings brushed my hair as it passed. Both hurtled into the bushes east of me so I don't know what the outcome may have been.

Teka

Teka is an indoor cat, and I always get upset when the next door neighbors cats catch birds. However, I think that's nature when hawks catch birds.

Wren44

We saw flickers so I think that's what they were. We keep any cats in our house inside also. Now they're all foster cats, but our own were inside only as well. We have a bird feeder that attaches to the window with suction. We put a one way film so the indoor cat can see the birds but birds can't see the cat. We have had hawks in the yard, but we find the remains then. A hawk got our mother robin 2 years ago. Her nest was in the eaves of our covered deck.

Teka

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auntienance

Just awesome!

Teka

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auntienance

Fantastic!

coraleliz

I'd love to see one of these!!!

luvmygoats

Beautiful picture and beautiful scenery behind him/her.

I've had a different hawk around. Much more speckled on back and much more orange breasted than a red tail and I don't think it's just a juvenile. Haven't seen him last week or so but not spending as much time at windows watching either.

Have put out saucers - flower pot bottoms - of warm water for the birds today. Everything frozen. May be below 10 degrees tonight. I know for you northern gals that's nothing but for North Texas it's darned cold.

Teka

This week we put out the suet feeders with the year-round seed feeders, but never water. The birds drink from our little frog pond.

I find it difficult to identify hawks!

Wren44

We put suet out once and got every starling in the county fighting over it. Do you know if starlings would go for the pinecone/peanutbutter/seed combo?

Teka

The starlings would love the combo.

auntienance

Hang your suet upside down in a feeder designed for this purpose. Starlings and sparrows don't like to feed upside down and won't hang around (pun intended) long.

auntienance

This is the one I have, but you could make one quite simply by attaching the suet cage to a piece of plywood.

auntienance

We have a heated water dish, the birds love it!

Teka

The starlings return late in the Spring. But now I understand the bottom suet feeders.

auntienance

Sadly, we have them all year round.

nesw

Teka - there is quite a population of Snowy Owls along the Jersey Shore this winter. I'm very excited about it. We're going to rent a beach house for a few days over the holidays and hope to encounter and photograph one or two. A few years ago, there was a single Snowy at the Meadowlands and we were lucky to see it.

Teka

Maybe due to fewer lemmings?

Teka

I was wrong, not a house wren but a carolina wren.

This morning Teka and sweetie were nose to bill at the kitchen sliding glass door.

I am determined to take and post my own photo of sweetie this Winter.

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"Jan 28, 2013 11:03pm, edited Jan 28, 2013 11:59pm by Teka

Hi Everyone,

Lovely photos!!

Teka, is an indoor cat that loves to watch the birds at the feeders.

I noticed earlier in the month a house wren at the suet feeders that maybe was able to migrate before the severe cold snap in the North Country.

I depend on Daughter to take and post photos."

mumito

Teka

Daughter and I enjoy photo.

Hubby and I gave Daughter a framed photo of a lovely dark-eyed junco in a snow storm. Her favorite bird!!!

Wren44

I saw a hummingbird at our feeder that looked like he had a red Christmas light on his throat. It was so bright!

DH gave DS a print of a brown creeper. And I bought myself a print of an owl made by my former watercolor teacher. She said she ran into it in a local park in broad daylight. It was a juvenile not yet used to being nocturnal. She perfectly captured it's look of surprise and wonder.

Teka

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M360

Ladies,   Just found this site and have been thrilled to hear about all your encounters.  I have to ask my daughters how to post pictures,  I sit in my Lanai and have three double sliding glass doors that overlooks a creek that runs through our back yard.  I get many birds that migrate but this winter seems less than usual.  Maybe because Northern California is so warm today it was 68.  My favorite morning bird that comes every day is a Green Heron.   I know that the creek is full by what birds migrate and stay.  Last year had Commerants but none this winter.   Last winter we also had a snowy owl and found out that because of food problems in the North they have been migrating further south each winter, so far I've seen none but this one of my favorite birds of all.  I don't feed but plant fruit trees and have raspberry bushes that now the berries have dried some and the birds come in flocks.  I must say that birds have kept me happy and kept me taking pictures no matter how bad my pain and cancer has become.  I've put up a swallow house because last year when cleaning up in the spring I actually had a swallow fly between my legs, I guess they were planning on building a house somewhere near by.  I miss seeing Cardinals that would feed in my mothers feeders during the winter when I lived on the East Coast as a child.   I would love to see some of the birds from our Aussie friends that post here.  They have some of the most beautiful flocks seen any where.  But I'm a birder who has gone to the Amazon to photograph and experience the birds that make that area their home, however that was over 20 years ago.  Thanks for allowing me to share my love of birds along with you all.

Teka

M360, Welcome!

Daughter helps me post photos.

I've at least 1 pair of cardinals.

I'll try to take a photo. ;o)