Feeding Wild Birds

[sourland]

I wish we had cardinals!!!

They are favorites of the Princess.

 

[swampfox440]

I looked out the window and to my surprise there was a grackle and a redwing black bird on the feeder that's our first sign of spring in N. E. Ohio. I hope they come back I will try to get a photo.

 

[sourland]

I looked out the window and to my surprise there was a grackle and a redwing black bird on the feeder that's our first sign of spring in N. E. Ohio. I hope they come back I will try to get a photo.

Redwing blackbird males at the home feeder this morning. Maybe spring is really coming? Last year the females never arrived, and there were no breeding pairs in the swamp at the beagle club.

 

[R2elk]

No Red-wings here yet. Currently -5°F with a light wind and 2 3/4" of snow.

 

[Isadora]

No Red-wings here yet. Currently -5°F with a light wind and

.... And?

 

[R2elk]

.... And?

Fixed it.

 

[sourland]

As expected there was a redwing male waiting for me to fill the feeder at the club. Here at home there are now 8 taking turns at the feeder.

 

[swampfox440]

Just saw my first robins this morning. A small flock landed in the yard and started worming.

 

[sourland]

Robins are common here all winter long. There is lots of bittersweet, winter berry, multiflora rose hips, autumn olive, and several types of berry bearing shrubs at the beagle club.

 

[sourland]

Today I found a partially eaten turkey carcass at the beagle club. Apparently it got ambushed against the fence - sometimes they fly in and can't figure how to get out. Looked like a raptor kill. Not certain whether a GHO or whether or not a red tail could kill a turkey. 'Whatever' did not leave a feather to help with identification.