BS: Birdwatching 2009

Subject: RE: BS: Birdwatching 2009
From: gnu
Date: 11 Dec 09 - 02:05 PM

It is indeed, m.... last wto years, it has also winter fed a turdus non-migratorius stunnedus.

(American Robin here in mid-winter. Kinda hard pickin worms and bugs with 4' of snow on the ground.)

Subject: RE: BS: Birdwatching 2009
From: gnu
Date: 11 Dec 09 - 02:06 PM

I also diced up meat and fat and made sure it got it.

Subject: RE: BS: Birdwatching 2009
From: maeve
Date: 12 Dec 09 - 10:41 AM

A flock of 50+ Canada geese flew over our farm early this morning. There were quite a lot of them clustered st the head of the > formation.

Chickadees and the little finches continue to visit the little window feeder. The flutters at the feeder remind me there is life out there still, frozen world and cold notwithstanding.

maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Birdwatching 2009
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 12 Dec 09 - 03:58 PM

A female pheasant has started to come to my feeder with contains oil seeds.
The sparrows are messy and spill seed to the deck beneath the feeder, where she joins a little red squirrel waiting for seeds to drop.

The usual black caps and nuthatches.

Subject: RE: BS: Birdwatching 2009
From: scouse
Date: 12 Dec 09 - 06:02 PM

Wind is at last NE or east and I seen quite a few flocks of geese flying SW in the past week or so. Just got really cold over here in "Cloggieland." at last.
As Aye

Phil.

Subject: RE: BS: Birdwatching 2009
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 12 Dec 09 - 07:27 PM

Migrating geese long gone, but a few stay throughout the winter, at water outfalls. (Alberta).

Subject: RE: BS: Birdwatching 2009
From: Janie
Date: 12 Dec 09 - 08:19 PM

Bit by bit, more dark-eyed juncos and white-throated throated sparrows are showing up.

Still not seeing as many birds of any species as by this time last year.

I'd really like to lure the red-bellied woodpeckers, but haven't seen a peanut feeder yet that I think would keep the squirrels out for long.

Subject: RE: BS: Birdwatching 2009
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 13 Dec 09 - 04:52 AM

In Cornwall, England...

Poem 190 of 230: BIRDWATCHERS' BUDE - WINTER 2001/2

Behind the Tourist Centre,
    Between canal and river,
On the marshy drained floodplain
    (Not now visited by train),
In among willow and reed,
    Eking out some winter feed:
Treecreepers, bobbing robins,
    Chirpy blue-tits, grey-herons,
The screams of water-rail,
    And snipe sharp on their trail.
Plus, out along limestone down,
    Soaring seabirds can be found.

From http://blogs.myspace.com/walkaboutsverse (e-book)
Or http://walkaboutsverse.sitegoz.com (e-scroll)
(C) David Franks 2003

Subject: RE: BS: Birdwatching 2009
From: Janie
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 04:10 PM

Song sparrow in my yard for the first time that I have seen. They are in this area, I just haven't seen one in my yard before.

Getting close to time to tally our counts for the year.

Subject: RE: BS: Birdwatching 2009
From: Janie
Date: 01 Jan 10 - 11:40 PM

So, how many species did you see this past year from your yard? (I won't know the answer for myself until I'm home again and have access to my own computer.

And when is Raptor gonna come in from kayaking and start the 2010 thread?

Subject: RE: BS: Birdwatching 2009
From: Raptor
Date: 02 Jan 10 - 02:25 PM

Post your totals here for 09

I only had 55 but it was a busy year.

Subject: RE: BS: Birdwatching 2009
From: Raptor
Date: 03 Jan 10 - 01:52 PM

Numbers People!

Subject: RE: BS: Birdwatching 2009
From: Janie
Date: 03 Jan 10 - 08:44 PM

OK. Home from WV. I had 42 species seen from my yard in 2009.   30 of them are either year round or winter here.   The rest very sparcely distributed over the course of spring and summer.

Wish I lived on a major flyway.

And so far this fall and winter I have had far few birds of any kind than I had las fall and winter.

Subject: RE: BS: Birdwatching 2009
From: ragdall
Date: 04 Jan 10 - 05:19 AM

I saw 36 species in my yard in 2009:

House Sparrow
House Finch
Purple Finch
Tree Sparrow
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Wilson's Warbler
Savannah Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Common Redpoll
Hoary Redpoll
Pine Siskin
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Black-capped Chickadee
Mountain Chickadee
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Rufus Hummingbird
Calliope hummingbird
Bohemian Waxwing
Cedar Waxwing
Evening Grosbeak
American Robin
Varied Thrush
European Starling
Common Crow
Northern Flicker
Hairy Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Northern Shrike
Merlin

rags

Subject: RE: BS: Birdwatching 2009
From: Raptor
Date: 04 Jan 10 - 07:36 AM

Rufus Hummingbird
Calliope hummingbird nice