Feeding Wild Birds

[R2elk]

I have to get the sparrows out of my Bluebird houses.

I gave up and took the bluebird house down.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

https://www.birdadvisors.com/hawks-in-pennsylvania/

I looked through that, I'm not sure if it's a hawk... could it be an Osprey or Peregrine falcon?

 

[R2elk]

I looked through that, I'm not sure if it's a hawk... could it be an Osprey or Peregrine falcon?

Falcons are small. Red-tailed hawks can come in a number of different variations.

Osprey

 

[CapricornFarm]

There's a pair that nests in a sycamore tree in front of the beagle club. They have not arrived yet, but the Phoebe is setting on eggs. In a week or so I will check to see if a cowbird has parasitized the nest. I will intercede if that is the case. There are more cowbirds than Pheobes.

We have cowbirds at the feeder daily now. Not a favorite.

 

[CapricornFarm]

On today's episode of Wildlife at Work.... can anyone identify? I'm still learning my birds of prey.

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https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1373342513133476&id=100000809582857

Looks like an Osprey to me.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Falcons are small. Red-tailed hawks can come in a number of different variations.

Osprey
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Osprey look different than this in FL.

 

[sourland]

I have to get the sparrows out of my Bluebird houses.

I've been evicting deer mice from the bluebird houses at the club. Today I opened one nestbox, and there was a mother bluebird setting on eggs. I quickly closed up the house, and she never flew out.

I looked through that, I'm not sure if it's a hawk... could it be an Osprey or Peregrine falcon?

Coloring is somewhat off, but body conformation looks like an Osprey to me.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Coloring is somewhat off, but body conformation looks like an Osprey to me.

I did have to adjust the coloring on the pictures a bit too actually be able to see it since the sun was at the wrong angle so that could be why.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

The grosbeaks are back! I had a red breasted male grosbeak at my feeder this morning. I have to grab a new hummingbird feeder today to set up. I think my old one broke last year.

 

[R2elk]

I saw a wren this morning.