Kennebec Bird Walk

[rolanni]

So, 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.)

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[topayz4.livejournal.com]

Since I recently moved I generally have no idea what my birds are. But, so far, thanks to The Guide to Colorado Birds I've identified Juniper Titmouse, Mountain Bluebird (which is nesting under the eaves of the house,) Nothern Flicker woodpecker, Pinon Jay, Red Tailed Hawk, Northern Harrier (formerly marsh hawk) and of course magpies, ravens and crows. We had a huge bird of prey at the property line a few weeks ago that only showed me its back, so I've had a hard time identifying it and haven't seen it since. And there are several owls, but they're rather hard to identify in the dark.

I need to put in a bird feeder, but its hard to pick a spot, since I need to put it where the dogs can't get under it but I can still enjoy it. We did that at the old house and they ate an awful lot of bird poo... eeeewwww.