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Post by James on Apr 24, 2018 17:54:10 GMT -5
April 24 on the bird feeder: Magpie, Red-winged Blackbird, House Finch, Starling, House Sparrow. A Pheasant pecking around on the ground. He won't get on the feeder. Crow a cawing over there. These do not get on the feeder. Saw a couple big hawks fly over. Maybe Swainson's?
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Post by tom π on Apr 25, 2018 12:43:00 GMT -5
A wild turkey ran across the road in front of me this morning. I had one in the yard last year. Never saw it, but found feathers. It was eventually kill on the road.
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Post by wheelgarden1 on May 3, 2018 17:27:18 GMT -5
Mock (yeah) ing (yeah) bird (yeah) ... Mockingbird ...
My favorite bird. Can't figure out what has happened to my Mockingbirds 'round here lately. Absent now, but they used to reign supreme, and fill the afternoons with vocal and aereo-batic comedy. You'd often be busying around, and have to stop and marvel at their repertoire of songs and antics and voices.
Did I make them mad? Do they miss the neighbors' cats? Are the other birds stealing their bugs? Corn snakes in their nests? Was it something I said?
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Post by wheelgarden1 on May 7, 2018 19:26:45 GMT -5
Cowbirds ... every couple of years, a lone male shows up, and starts exploring the ground. Within a day or two, he and his harem of females and juveniles return in a flock to feed and highly disturb the other birds.
The lone male showed up today. Other birds are uneasy and on alert. Maybe that's why my Mockingbirds have gone away.
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Post by James on May 8, 2018 10:55:35 GMT -5
Today, on the birdfeeder: Eu Dove, Magpie, E Sparrow, RW Blackgird. Used to get House Finches, but the finches are MIA. I hear a robin, but they do not come to the feeder.
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Post by Mumsey on May 11, 2018 18:06:22 GMT -5
A pair of Baltimore Orioles visted today, they enjoyed the orange I put out. They stayed for quite a while, didn't even startle when I opened the door to take their pic.
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Post by binnylou on May 11, 2018 18:11:58 GMT -5
Mumsey,do you give them grape jelly? I've heard that they love it, but it must be messy.
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Post by Mumsey on May 12, 2018 3:52:39 GMT -5
binnylou, No, I just tuck half an orange on each side of the feeder, there's an upward hooky loop that holds them nicely. The birds then sit on the orange while they eat. Neighbor has a feeder just for Orioles, they put grape jelly out. Yup, they love that too. Not the best pic, these two look to be females. The males came later.
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Post by Mumsey on May 12, 2018 18:42:35 GMT -5
This is cool. Dad had a Scarlet Tanager feeding on his deck yesterday. But no pics, darn. So beautiful, black wings and tail. The rest of him is bright red. The female has very little black on her. They are rarely spotted in Iowa because they live high in trees.
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Post by ahntjudy on May 13, 2018 8:46:40 GMT -5
I saw a tanager only once many years ago... What a beautiful bird...sort of exotic for this area...
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Post by Mumsey on May 13, 2018 19:45:57 GMT -5
Got a pic of the Scarlet Tanager today! Such a striking bird!
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Post by desertwoman on May 13, 2018 20:16:24 GMT -5
oooh that's beauty! We don't get them here.
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Post by James on May 14, 2018 9:08:39 GMT -5
Pretty Bird!
We get the Western Tanager here.
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Post by binnylou on May 14, 2018 10:55:22 GMT -5
I know I have seen this bird in our yard...well, at least a family member. But not recently. They have a strange area, with the mostly northern part of Iowa not being their area, but then going clear up into Canada.
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Post by binnylou on May 19, 2018 20:37:38 GMT -5
This is a hole in our crab tree...we decided last fall that after it bloomed this spring, we would take it down. It just was not thriving. The bloom was glorious. Well maybe next year. Then I found this... DSCF1475 by BLou, on Flickr I think it's a Downy woodpecker, sitting on eggs.
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