Very busy at the bird feeder today! (3 Viewers)

[Cheshire Birder]

First Jay for some time yesterday

CB

 

[roger1234]

6 LTT this afternoon

 

[JeffMoh]

6 LTT this afternoon

Love seeing Long-tailed Tits when I'm in the UK. Beautiful birds. We don't have an equivalent here.

Jeff

 

[grobble]

Very quiet at the feeders this week.

Must be plenty of natural food about (unless the neighbours have gone mad with the food).

 

[bongofury]

A Wren this morning was a nice surprise, along with a pair of LTTs. Also a couple of Blackbirds trying to guard the berries.

 

[JeffMoh]

Late yesterday afternoon I noticed a group of 30 Turkey Vultures over our house. They circled for several minutes. Don't know if they were migrating or if they thought I looked like I was on my last legs.

Jeff

 

[roger1234]

Love seeing Long-tailed Tits when I'm in the UK. Beautiful birds. We don't have an equivalent here.

Jeff

you have to catch them while you can jeff,very nimble and only fleeting visits.

 

[OnTheVerge]

Two new birds around my feeder the last few days: dark-eyed junco and this morning, a gray-crowned rosy-finch! The other birds kept chasing him away, though...

 

[Bananafishbones]

Two new birds around my feeder the last few days: dark-eyed junco and this morning, a gray-crowned rosy-finch! The other birds kept chasing him away, though...

Welcome :t: Good to get new visitors to the garden and feeders, its always a thrill, Just googled Grey Crowned Rosy-Finch.... Nice bird.

 

[Bananafishbones]

My regular male Sparrowhawk nearly took my head off this morning as we nearly collided in the garden, the Sprawk took last ditch evasive action.

He is coming a few times a day at the moment, funny that the female hasn't been in the garden for ages now but often passes overhead but very high up.

 

[Bananafishbones]

Buzzard over the garden was forced as low as I have seen by a group of mobbing BH Gulls, Jackdaws and Carrion Crows.... I really wish they would fight back one day

Wren lurking in and out of the conifers and Greenfinch numbers building nicely - 17

 

[bongofury]

Nice count of Greenfinches, BFB.

My GSWs have been misisng for weeks now - I'm hoping it's just because there's so much natural food about.

Highlight of today was a Robin, persumably moulting, with white outer tail feathers. I got the Collins out in hope, but I swiftly put it away again.

 

[Cheshire Birder]

good count of Greenfinches Bfb

CB

 

[JeffMoh]

Our winter birds have started to arrive. We currently have an Orange-crowned Warbler and I expect more soon. My wife say a Ruby-crowned Kinglet on Friday. I missed it but we usually have a male resident in our yards from about this time each year.
I expect Pine Warblers will turn up soon, then Chipping Sparrows, a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker and , later, American Goldfinch.

Jeff

 

[ClarkWGriswold]

GSW returned for the first time in ages today.

Rich

 

[OnTheVerge]

Another new bird today: purple finch. The new birds don't seem to be quite as regular as the normal visitors but I'm hoping they'll stick around through the winter.

 

[grobble]

I'm fairly sure a Wren is resident in my garden but I only see it once or twice a year since it's so shy and tiny.

Consequently referred to as the 'lesser spotted wren'.

 

[JeffMoh]

I'm fairly sure a Wren is resident in my garden but I only see it once or twice a year since it's so shy and tiny.
Consequently referred to as the 'lesser spotted wren'.

Nice one, Grobble.
We always have Carolina Wrens in our yard and they are anything but shy.
Jeff
www.jeffincypress.blogspot.com

 

[Bananafishbones]

How Strange?

Chiffchaff in the garden.

 

[roger1234]

16 goldfinches on the nyjer seed this afternoon