Feeding Wild Birds

[sourland]

No sightings of White Bird or any other raptors. No signs of GHO at the club. Both turkey flocks arrived at the same time this afternoon. The five adult hens engaged in 'battle royal' while the 15 poults fearfully watched. I got within 15' of them before they disengaged. The hen who has successfully raised 8 poults is fiercely dominant. She was wreaking havoc on the 3 hens from the other flock.

 

[TwoCrows]

If you'd like to listen to some captivating bird song, "All About Birds Macaulay Library" of bird sounds put together their favorite top 14 audio recordings of 2025. Some interesting bird song can be heard here.

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/best-bird-sounds-audio-macaulay-library-2025/

 

[sourland]

This morning when I went out to the road to retrieve the garbage cans, a bald eagle was circling the hay field across the road. Same bird I saw earlier in the week? Perhaps there is a deer carcass somewhere in the area.

 

[fuzzi]

Suet feeder hack:

Chain for the feeder rusted. The carbiner holds the two sides together (closed), and slides easily over the feeder pole hook.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Hummingbirds are GONE! Feeders washed, bubble wrapped and stored. Fifty pounds of seed in the storage can, suet and seed in the regular feeder for the cold weather birds.

Same here.
But a tree frog has taken up residence in my ant moat

 

[TwoCrows]

I sprinkle some hulled sunflower seeds out under the feeders on the ground every morning for the Stellars Jays, they aren't clingers and won't hang off suet feeders or use feeders with perches. This morning a pair of Sharp-shinned hawks showed up and were double teaming, dive bombing the backs of the Stellar and Scrub Jays. I was shocked the Jays were pretty oblivious and seemed only mildly annoyed their breakfast was being interrupted. But I couldn't take the chance one of these hawks could snag a Jay and I would have felt horribly guilty knowing I baited the jays in for a hawk meal. Catch them on your own time guys. I swept up all the crumbs and the Jays must have got annoyed breakfast was completely removed as the next thing I saw was 4 Stellars and 6 Scrub Jays mobbing and chasing these 2 hawks right out of the yard! The Jays were just not having it, no welcome mat for these hawks! In the end I felt sorry for the hawks.

 

[SkyAJK]

I am not fond of wild birds because I don't want them poop on my solar panels. I love them except for that!

Yesterday I saw a tiny noisy miner bird carried a small mouse in its mouth! What a sight to be seen. This little bird is building a nest on the corner of my house high up near the roof, I can not move it because it is so high up, I want to move it because it is not safe as I have 2 little dogs running around in the yard and baby noisy miners drop down to the ground at certain age and live on the ground for a few days....

 

[allenw]

Blue birds were playing in the birdbath and water pans last night. I'm not sure how many were there with all the coming and going but I counted about ten once.

 

[TwoCrows]

If birds told ghost stories...