Kennebec Bird Walk
Thursday, November 2nd, 2006 11:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanniSo, I'm over here at the Morning Song Bird Food site, and among their helpful tips is How to Attract Blue Jays. And I'm thinking, there are people who want blue jays at their feeders? They should send me their address and I'll ship 'em some of mine. Air mail.
What I want to see at my bird feeders -- are cardinals. Don't get me wrong; I'm very fond of the woodpeckers -- downy and hairy -- who now have their own hanging basket full of stuck-together seeds -- which the blue jays (*sigh*) also enjoy. And of course the chickadees, the nuthatches, house finches, juncos, titmice, purple finches, house sparrows, and pine siskins that grace us with their winter custom. But cardinals...I'd love to get cardinals as regular visitors.
What birds come to your feeders? Which are you trying to attract? What bird book do you keep closest to the bird-watching window? (I like Stan Tekiela's Birds of Maine Field Guide. The birds are sorted by color, which is just about my speed, and the photos are clear and unambiguous.)
What I want to see at my bird feeders -- are cardinals. Don't get me wrong; I'm very fond of the woodpeckers -- downy and hairy -- who now have their own hanging basket full of stuck-together seeds -- which the blue jays (*sigh*) also enjoy. And of course the chickadees, the nuthatches, house finches, juncos, titmice, purple finches, house sparrows, and pine siskins that grace us with their winter custom. But cardinals...I'd love to get cardinals as regular visitors.
What birds come to your feeders? Which are you trying to attract? What bird book do you keep closest to the bird-watching window? (I like Stan Tekiela's Birds of Maine Field Guide. The birds are sorted by color, which is just about my speed, and the photos are clear and unambiguous.)
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Date: 2006-11-02 04:34 pm (UTC)Cardinals are, I'm told, surprisingly urban birds. We have at least a pair. It may be owning to them liking to have both open spaces and bushy spaces. I'm not sure.
We also have blue jays (usually arriving in a flock of eight), the pig-headed cowbird (bronze-headed, actually, but stupid) and his mate, both forms of nuthatch, chickadees, titmice, juncos, robbins, occassionally a wren, sparrows, including occassionally a fox sparrow, downy & hairy woodpeckers, occasional flickers (though they seldom come to the feeder), ruby-throated hummingbirds, an occassional indigo bunting, rose-breasted grosbeaks, house and purple finches, blackbirds, and morning doves. I think that does it.
Not at the feeders, but locally, we also regularly see ducks, crows, ravens, geese, and great blue herons.