Bird Feeders
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November 11th, 2013 at 3:03:02 PM
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I finally gave in and put up a bird feeding station in the
front yard, about 25' from my office window. I like
re-purposing, so I took a 7' tall piece of angle iron and
buried the first foot of it in the ground, and did the same
with an old iron fence post, about 2' feet apart. I wrapped
them with wire and hung 2 suet feeders on each.
How entertaining. They flock around them all day and flit
between them. I have some binoculars at the ready. The
best so far are the woodpeckers:
The cardinals are the most colorful.
The bluejays are loud and big:
Titmouse:
Chickadee:
Nuthatch:
front yard, about 25' from my office window. I like
re-purposing, so I took a 7' tall piece of angle iron and
buried the first foot of it in the ground, and did the same
with an old iron fence post, about 2' feet apart. I wrapped
them with wire and hung 2 suet feeders on each.
How entertaining. They flock around them all day and flit
between them. I have some binoculars at the ready. The
best so far are the woodpeckers:
The cardinals are the most colorful.
The bluejays are loud and big:
Titmouse:
Chickadee:
Nuthatch:
"It's not called gambling if the math is on your side."
November 11th, 2013 at 3:04:55 PM
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Male Cardinals always catch my eye.....beautiful.
Each day is better than the next
November 11th, 2013 at 4:52:34 PM
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Another nuthatch.
"It's not called gambling if the math is on your side."
November 11th, 2013 at 5:31:51 PM
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Quote: EvenBobAnother nuthatch.
That's not a nuthatch. Don't you have a bird book?
November 11th, 2013 at 5:37:33 PM
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Quote: petroglyphQuote: EvenBobAnother nuthatch.
That's not a nuthatch. Don't you have a bird book?
Says its a nuthatch here.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Dendrocopos_major_4-3c.jpg/170px-Dendrocopos_major_4-3c.jpg"It's not called gambling if the math is on your side."
November 11th, 2013 at 5:42:04 PM
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That's a woodpecker, linked into the nuthatch page, saying it's a danger to nuthatches.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Spotted_Woodpecker
One should probably check your sources rather than linking to spurious pictures on wiki-commons with no explanatory notes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Spotted_Woodpecker
One should probably check your sources rather than linking to spurious pictures on wiki-commons with no explanatory notes.
"Then you can admire the real gambler, who has neither eaten, slept, thought nor lived, he has so smarted under the scourge of his martingale, so suffered on the rack of his desire for a coup at trente-et-quarante" - Honore de Balzac, 1829
November 11th, 2013 at 6:08:57 PM
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Quote: thecesspit
One should probably check your sources .
My source was the bird at the feeder,
he doesn't know what he's called. Neither
did I. He looks the same no what you
call him.
"It's not called gambling if the math is on your side."
November 11th, 2013 at 6:17:18 PM
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I had a peanut ring at my old house. A wire ring that holds about 200 raw peanuts. The bluejays would empty it daily!
November 11th, 2013 at 6:28:00 PM
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Looking at your birds there, that puts you on the East coast, right?
I saw all your birds there when I was in Virginia and the book says a black capped or Carolina chickadee.
Cool, its a great passive/active hobby and people don't even know your doing it.
I saw all your birds there when I was in Virginia and the book says a black capped or Carolina chickadee.
Cool, its a great passive/active hobby and people don't even know your doing it.
November 11th, 2013 at 6:40:40 PM
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Quote: JohnzimboI had a peanut ring at my old house. A wire ring that holds about 200 raw peanuts. The bluejays would empty it daily!
I had seed feeders years ago and they were too much
work and too expensive. Keeping the squirrels away
was a problem. And yes, the jays thought it was just
for them. Every 2 days I was out there dumping quarts
of sunflower seeds into the feeders. The suet cakes
last a lot longer.
"It's not called gambling if the math is on your side."
November 11th, 2013 at 11:04:22 PM
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Quote: EvenBobMy source was the bird at the feeder,
he doesn't know what he's called. Neither
did I. He looks the same no what you
call him.
Erm, you 'quoted' an image from wikimedia, you claimed it was nuthatch. Nothing about 'the bird at the feeder'.
So, erm... whatever Bob.
"Then you can admire the real gambler, who has neither eaten, slept, thought nor lived, he has so smarted under the scourge of his martingale, so suffered on the rack of his desire for a coup at trente-et-quarante" - Honore de Balzac, 1829
November 11th, 2013 at 11:04:36 PM
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i have a stream that runs around the property and at least 4 blue herons
hang out there. These are huge birds, the wingspan has to be 4' at least.
When they swoop down and fly a foot off the water, it's like you're being
attacked by whooshing air. At dusk they one by one come and roost in
the big trees at the streams edge. It's almost spooky, they make a lot of
noise getting into the trees, then silence. I can see them way up there,
just sitting and watching, like vultures.
hang out there. These are huge birds, the wingspan has to be 4' at least.
When they swoop down and fly a foot off the water, it's like you're being
attacked by whooshing air. At dusk they one by one come and roost in
the big trees at the streams edge. It's almost spooky, they make a lot of
noise getting into the trees, then silence. I can see them way up there,
just sitting and watching, like vultures.
"It's not called gambling if the math is on your side."
November 11th, 2013 at 11:08:58 PM
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Quote: EvenBobi have a stream that runs around the property and at least 4 blue herons
hang out there. These are huge birds, the wingspan has to be 4' at least.
When they swoop down and fly a foot off the water, it's like you're being
attacked by whooshing air. At dusk they one by one come and roost in
the big trees at the streams edge. It's almost spooky, they make a lot of
noise getting into the trees, then silence. I can see them way up there,
just sitting and watching, like vultures.
How do you know they are herons? They don't know what they are called... maybe they like to think of themselves as vultures. Or Greater Crested Woodfinches.
"Then you can admire the real gambler, who has neither eaten, slept, thought nor lived, he has so smarted under the scourge of his martingale, so suffered on the rack of his desire for a coup at trente-et-quarante" - Honore de Balzac, 1829
