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Post by gb98 on Jan 4, 2022 8:35:18 GMT -5
Mumsey, you bet! I have seen the neighbor's cat take out a few chipmunks.
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Post by Wheelgarden on Jan 9, 2022 16:19:32 GMT -5
Watched a phoebe stand on the ground like a heron for twenty minutes, in steady rain, in a big puddle and "fish" for floated-out worms, insects, and seeds. It shook the rain off occasionally. Looked well-fed.
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Post by Wheelgarden on Jan 13, 2022 17:20:52 GMT -5
I've been watching for Sandhill Cranes and listening hard for their clucking from way, way up there. They're gathering at the Hiwassee refuge 40 miles north of me, as they do every year. A nice break in the clouds today, and there they were, silver wings sparkling, about 30-40 of them...way, way up there. Beautiful.
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Post by binnylou on Mar 9, 2022 18:10:22 GMT -5
We’ve had a Yellow Shafted Flicker visiting the suet feeder for most of the winter. Yesterday and again today, it was at the deck window, pecking and squawking. Then it started hammering on the lower metal horizontal part of the window. At the same time, I saw two others on the deck rail. All winter, it’s always been just one bird on the suet, but not necessarily always the same bird.
Territorial behavior?
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Post by gardendmpls on Mar 9, 2022 22:47:34 GMT -5
Maybe it was requesting more suet.
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Post by gb98 on Mar 10, 2022 7:10:57 GMT -5
I'm starting to hear red winged blackbirds. They think it's spring.
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Post by Wheelgarden on Mar 11, 2022 14:50:39 GMT -5
The birds are all really busy out there, ahead of a big late-winter event overnight (you can't tell me that they don't know). Little birds, big birds, the whole crew. Saw a Great Blue heron too, and an unidentified jay-sized dark-bodied bird with a light grey head. My eyes and I were just a bit too far away to get a good fix.
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Post by heirloomfan on Mar 14, 2022 10:09:47 GMT -5
We've had Chickadees all year round, also house finches, magpies, flicker woodpeckers and a few more. Saw this hawk a couple of weeks ago on a snowy afternoon standing on our backyard fence holding it's prey (looked like it caught a squirrel). I think it's a Cooper's Hawk.
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Post by gb98 on Mar 14, 2022 18:49:53 GMT -5
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Post by ahntjudy on Mar 24, 2022 10:15:39 GMT -5
Mourning Doves are again nesting atop the high in the wall and under the eave, dining room air conditioner. I enjoy their cooing serenades.
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Post by shadetree on Mar 24, 2022 16:40:41 GMT -5
gb98, I love the sound of red winged blackbirds!
I have a family of woodpeckers living in my yard, and I spotted a hawk this morning flying overhead.
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Post by gb98 on Mar 26, 2022 17:12:31 GMT -5
shadetree, Me too! I'm regularly hearing cardinals now too. I've been hearing spring peepers for the past week or so. However, a cold blast is coming for Monday with a high of only 29, so not sure how many will survive past that.
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Post by breezygardener on Mar 26, 2022 17:28:18 GMT -5
However, a cold blast is coming for Monday with a high of only 29, so not sure how many will survive past that. No worries about their survival - Spring Peepers have evolved in a way that makes them quite impervious to the cold. In fact, they can actually freeze, thaw out, & be good as new, having a type of natural "anti-freeze" in their tiny little bodies.
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Post by gb98 on Mar 27, 2022 7:16:19 GMT -5
breezygardener, That's great to know they will still be around when it warms up again! And now off topic, but how did you insert my quote in your message like that? I can't figure out how to do that.
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Post by gardendmpls on Mar 27, 2022 7:23:13 GMT -5
how did you insert my quote in your message like that? Highlight the area you want to quote. The words Quick Quote will appear a little below it. Click that and then go down to Reply. Click that and the quote will appear below that. Type below the quote, outside the quote box. If you type in the quote box you will have a hard time escaping from there. At least I do, but I am sure there is another way out besides starting over.
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