Yard day

[charles...@gmail.com]

13 degrees and snow brought a lot of new and old visitors today.  The solitaire was in watering and snagging Russian olive berries.  A big flock of robins and starlings were intermixed and working over the wall of Virginia creeper berries that was warming up in the sun as was the hermit thrush that has been holed up in my backyard the last week or so.  And everyone is using the pond water.   The FOS Cassin's Finches were part of the feeder gang chowing down on Black Oil Sunflower seeds.  Joining them were the resident House Finches, Junco's, Blue Jays, Chickadees and our newly arrived winter Spotted Towhee.  Both nuthatches monopolized the suet feeder.  And the always welcome Flicker would bomb in scattering everyone else and grab a wad of suet or mouthful of seeds.  The goldfinches and chickadees split their time between the sunflower table feeder, the suet feeder and working over all the seed heads from this past seasons composite garden.

Fun day in this Highlands yard.

Charlie

Denver

[Libby Edwards]

I love posts like this!  Thanks you.

Along with all of these birds, we also had some bush tits, three spotted towhees, three scrub jays, all vying for a place either at the suet or the sunflower seeds.  Oh, and throw in the white crowned sparrows and we had a colorful morning!  And everyone is using the birdbath.

Thanks

Libby Edwards

Fort Collins

Larimer County

On Nov 19, 2022, at 12:49 PM, charles...@gmail.com <charles...@gmail.com> wrote:

13 degrees and snow brought a lot of new and old visitors today.  The solitaire was in watering and snagging Russian olive berries.  A big flock of robins and starlings were intermixed and working over the wall of Virginia creeper berries that was warming up in the sun as was the hermit thrush that has been holed up in my backyard the last week or so.  And everyone is using the pond water.   The FOS Cassin's Finches were part of the feeder gang chowing down on Black Oil Sunflower seeds.  Joining them were the resident House Finches, Junco's, Blue Jays, Chickadees and our newly arrived winter Spotted Towhee.  Both nuthatches monopolized the suet feeder.  And the always welcome Flicker would bomb in scattering everyone else and grab a wad of suet or mouthful of seeds.  The goldfinches and chickadees split their time between the sunflower table feeder, the suet feeder and working over all the seed heads from this past seasons composite garden.

Fun day in this Highlands yard.

Charlie

Denver

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