Birds

Posted on December 18, 2006
Filed Under River Notes |

This fall I took an old cedar four by four I had lying around, cut a bit off & notched it to make a T & set it up at the edge of our little patch of lawn, near the spruce & cedars beside the stream. I hung bird feeders from the arms of the T, filled with sunflower seeds, & also attached a couple of suet cages to the upright. Around noon today, looking out from an upstairs window, I saw three blue jays, one nuthatch, one downy woodpecker, one hairy woodpecker, a bunch of chickadees (& two red squirrels) at or around the bird feeders. The woodpeckers really love the suet blocks I’ve put out. We’re having a very easy winter so far, though the goldfinches seem to have finally headed south about two weeks ago. And there are no more Canada geese on the river, though it hasn’t been cold enough to put even a skim of ice over the surface. There are generally some crows fooling around at the high end of the pond & a couple of days ago we saw (& heard) a raven over Dean Green’s pasture. I put this down for my own pleasure.