Feeding Wild Birds

[fuzzi]

Phone camera photo, not very good, but you should be able to make out birds around the feeders. (Wednesday)

There's a Downy woodpecker on the peanut feeder on the right.

 

[Sequel]

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Phone camera photo, not very good, but you should be able to make out birds around the feeders. (Wednesday)

There's a Downy woodpecker on the peanut feeder on the right.

I see red ones! I’m so jealous!

 

[Molpet]

Another white hawk.
'Not something you see every day': MU Raptor Rehabilitation Project treats rare hawk https://www.komu.com/news/midmissou...cle_62d91008-f088-11ef-b40d-1f409f656370.html

 

[sourland]

Another white hawk.
'Not something you see every day': MU Raptor Rehabilitation Project treats rare hawk https://www.komu.com/news/midmissou...cle_62d91008-f088-11ef-b40d-1f409f656370.html

Wow ! She is totally white. 'White Bird' still has some pigmented feathers, but becomes more white each molt.

 

[sourland]

Met the turkey lady (girl) today. Turns out the state is doing a survival study on incubating turkeys and poults raised - 3 year study. Turns out they netted the flock 3 miles from here - these birds really range far. 9 hens were banded and affixed with transmitters. They also banded Short Beard. She seems like a really nice kid, and is really enthusiastic about turkeys and about her job. They are going to contact me whenever they want access to the beagle club.

Finally caught the rabbit that has been eating my azaleas. He has been relocated to the beagle club.

 

[ValerieJ]

Met the turkey lady (girl) today. Turns out the state is doing a survival study on incubating turkeys and poults raised - 3 year study. Turns out they netted the flock 3 miles from here - these birds really range far. 9 hens were banded and affixed with transmitters. They also banded Short Beard. She seems like a really nice kid, and is really enthusiastic about turkeys and about her job. They are going to contact me whenever they want access to the beagle club.

Finally caught the rabbit that has been eating my azaleas. He has been relocated to the beagle club.

So solves the mystery of where the turkeys went. Glad they are back and the state is interested in their preservation.

 

[5Australorpasaures]

Flushed a Woodcock walking to the coop, for a little bird certainly makes a racket flushing, fast too.

 

[R2elk]

Grocery store parking lot.

 

[R2elk]

Spooked a GHO out of a blue spruce. It moved to a cottonwood before a pair of Blue Jays escorted it off of the property.

 

[sourland]

Short Beard showed up and hung out for several hours yesterday, but the rest of the flock did not.