Well, greg, you would enjoy this time of year here on the Blue Ridge Mountain in Wes Ginny because there is a lot of bird activity, some of it mysterious. With all 7 feeder loaded with a variety of yummies there are times when you can's count the birds and other times when you can't find but a couple feeding... The junko's pulled up stakes two weeks ago to head back to Little Hawk's backyard and the pheobes set up shop last week. The robins have been here since the 4th of the month. The gold finches (yellow) are just starting to turn yellow and are linda greenish now...

We have nothing that resembles the bull finch except an occasional tanigier or Baltimore Oriole (kind of orange and black). We still have a full compliment of woodpeckers (downy, hairy, red bellied and those nutty piliated's but haven't seen our coveted red heads in several months).

Filling out the palet are the noisy titmouses, the almost tale nuthatches, the wrens, chickodees, a few blue birds, cardinals, pesky blue jays (that you and kate loved...), morning doves, a pair of starlings and three danged crows...

We also have a flock of turkey buzzards that show evry year about this time and look for a roosting area and there's must be something appealing to them from their vantage point about the woods behind out house so every year I have to take bottle rockets out and scare them off becuase they are like real nasty...

BTW, anyone who would like some blue jays, come get 'um.......

Bobert