Feeding Wild Birds

[sourland]

It revived and flew off - one of the lucky ones.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

While watching Penn State/Ohio State football game there was a thud against the picture window. Went out to find a seriously stunned nuthatch. Things did not look good. I moved it to a chair on the porch so that Scaredy Cat would not find it. It seems to be coming around. Maybe it will be okay.

I don't think I've ever had a wild bird hit one of our windows but when I was a kid, I had a pet cockatiel and he occasionally would fly right in to the kitchen window thinking he could fly out. The one time, he did it good and there was a perfect outline of his head, crest, and wings on the nicely cleaned window lol. I think he dropped in to the sink and stumbled around a few minutes, said his name, and took off back to his cage lol. He was a silly bird.

 

[sourland]

It was raptor day at the beagle club. I spent time watching 3 turkey buzzards soaring along the ridge at the bottom of the club. Then I saw a female redtail that is about 75% white. She's been wintering in the area for several years, but this is the most white she has become. And then I saw the male Cooper's hawk that hunts the rabbit feeders for voles. He also has been wintering at the club for several years. He's pretty much habituated to me. The redtail - not so much.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I saw an article on that neck twisting disease the pigeons are getting. It's sad. I can't think of the name.

Wry neck?

 

[sourland]

Wry neck?

Paramyxovirus can cause neck twisting, and sometimes it will appear with Salmonella infections.

 

[sourland]

Saw a new bird at the window feeder at home. Olive colored with black/white striped wing coverlets. Apparently a pair as one was much brighter than the other. Black throated green warbler seems to be the bird.

 

[sourland]

There was a bald eagle along the beagle club lane this morning. Checked to see if the deet hunters had gutted a deer in their parking area. Didn't find any remains, but the eagle is sitting in the tree line further down. I'm guessing there is a dead deer somewhere in the area.

 

[sourland]

This morning there was an immature bald eagle sitting where the adult was yesterday. Bald eagles are relatively uncommon here as we are a distance from the Delaware River and Round Valley reservoir. I stopped to check on my way out, and the eagle flew East. As it passed a hedgerow, an explosion of crows happened. I walked over there and found the carcass of a yearling deer. I've been noticing an unhealthy deer the past several weeks, and she must have died.

 

[swampfox440]

Now that it is snowing, I have to clean the snow off the bird feeder in the morning. The feeder is loaded with birds.

 

[swampfox440]

We are getting a lot of customers at the seed bar this morning, business is booming.