Yesterday:
Flock of juncos
Stellar’s jay
pair of flickers
robins
and a couple of little birds too fast for me
Last night around sunset I saw a big Bald Eagle sitting on a power pole near a creek. Granted, this was out of my car window, but still…
That was one awesome looking bird.
I have a sunflower seed feeder, a suet block and a mesh bag of nettle seeds.
I frequently see a downy woodpecker whom I’ve named Robert; he loves the suet. I see a lot of chickadees who grab a seed and fly off to eat elsewhere. I’ve seen one cardinal (on the snow–very pretty). Also when I sprinkle corn meal on the ground I’ve seen a bunch of this bigger brown bird I can’t identify. And ravens.
And once I saw a whitebreasted nuthatch.
1 female cardinal
3 Nuthatches
6 Ground doves
1 huge frickn bird I’ve never seen in my life before. It’s shades of gary brown black and white being as big or bigger than the doves.
Here are my daily visitors who come to my house. Eat all my bread. Poop all over my balcony and shriek and scream.
I was expecting flying monkeys. Darn!
Heee! Fly my pretties!
They’re just as noisy and messy as 'em. But they’re getting to the stage where I can touch them and handfeed them.
Occasionally we’ll get a bluejay or a cardinal, and sometimes robins and whipporwills, but mostly sparrows or blackbirds. They perch in the bushes around our neighborhood in spring and the song trickles through like a river, especially during the quietest parts of dawn.
There’s a chip of plaster missing from one of our porch pillars out in front, just below the roof, and every winter a bluebird comes there to build his nest…
Mourning Doves
White Winged Doves
Cooper’s Hawks
House Finches
House Sparrows
Juncos
Scrub Jays
Flickers
Robins
Crows
Sometimes there is a thrasher or a White Crowned Sparrow. I used to see a Collared Dove, but I think one of the hawks got it.
This morning:
2 Male cardinals
2 Female cardinals
1 Chickadee
1 Sparrow
Out the window, at the feeder are Mostly chickadees (dee-dees). Up in the sky are Crows, Bald Eagles, and recently Swan.
South Central BC, here.
In or near my back yard on a semi-regular basis:
Mockingbirds
Blue Jays
Cardinals
Doves (Mourning, Banded-neck and White Wing)
Red-winged Blackbirds
Grackles (both common and boat-tailed)
Osprey
Some sort of hawk (red-shouldered, possibly)
The occasional woodpecker shows up–I think pileated mostly
I hear quail, but never see them. I hear owls, too. And whipporwills.
I’ve got Quail the size of softballs running around the back yard and lately there has been a Falcon of some kind lurking around. Thousands of little sparrows and such as well. All trying to get into my garage and all shitting on everthing in the yard.
Humming birds in the trumpet vine plants
Crows on the water fountains
Pigeons perched on the downspouts under the eaves
Junco
and Black Capped Chickadees
Oh, I forget, we also get these little finch-sized birds. I’m not sure what they are, but they are kee-yoot!
OMG, thank you for reminding me – I now live on the second floor and can hang a bird feeder! Hamish will love it, and so will the cats (don’t be alarmed, they are never let outside; they’ll just enjoy a new program on Cat TV).
Besides the usual urban birds, my mom gets goldfinches, chickadees, nuthatches, and the occasional cardinal at her backyard feeder. Up at the cottage, my grandfather used to get ruby-throated hummingbirds, blue jays, pileated woodpeckers, occasional grey jays, and great blue herons and common loons down at the dock.
My favorite Woodpecker is back. I can’t identify it, because it doesn’t match the plumage of one I’ve looked at for the last six months. It’s sort of like the red bellied woodpecker with only a small spot of red on top of the head just behind the eyes. It looks close to the golden fronted woodpecker without the two yellow head spots. The chest is white with a bluegray hue.
1 Woodpecker
1 Male cardinal
2 Female cardinals
4 Juncos
1 Blackcapped chickadee
Nitpick: They’re Canada Geese, not Canadian Geese.
About the only birds left around here are crows and chickadees. Perhaps the occasional nuthatch and blue jay. I love the springtime when the birds return.
I’m going to cheat a bit since I can’t see out the window right now. But lately I’ve noticed nuthatches, tit mice, blue jays, cardials (a pair lives at the end of our driveway), chickadees and downy woodpeckers. I’m glad the unseasonable weather early this winter didn’t drive more birds north, though I miss seeing them about.
I’ve heard Canadian geese recently, but didn’t see them. until people start saying Africa Lion, India Elephant, Siberia Tiger and America Bison, I’m not calling them Canada Geese.