Winter Birds
Right after going out in the snow to refill the feeders, I saw two pine grosbeaks, which I haven’t seen previously this winter. Also, large numbers of redpolls have been coming to the thistle feeders. Then there are the usual chickadees, nuthatches, & woodpeckers. Having the birds flying around outside helps make the long winters [...]
Election Day Birds
More birds at the feeders in my yard this morning than I have seen all winter: starlings, goldfinches, huge flock of sparrows, grosbeaks, the usual chickadees, a couple of nuthatches & my regular woodpeckers, a downy & a hairy. We’ve had a lot of rain, freezing rain, snow & sleet, which has left a packed [...]
Winter Birds
Hadn’t seen any finches at the feeder for a couple of weeks until this morning when a flock of more than fifty descended. You often see juncos traveling with the finches & feeding on the ground, but I didn’t notice any this morning. They came in right after a brief snow squall when the sun [...]
Dec 16 2006 Snow
Dec 16 2006 Snow
The birds have been enjoying coming to the feeder today in the bright sun. Just looking out occasionally, I’ve seen pair of hairy woodpeckers, several nuthatches, the usual flock of chickadees, jays, grosbeaks.
Snowstorm
Well, the storm that moved through the Northeast US seems to have played itself out. We got more than a foot of snow over the last twenty-four hours, which means I’ll be clearing the stuff of the deck (in shifts) for the rest of the day. When Carole gets home this afternoon, we’ll have to [...]
Eagle
As we were walking the dogs on the far side of the river this morning, Carole spotted a young bald eagle sitting in a birch snag on our property, back across the river. After a few moments, he flew off casually to the southeast, low along the river. Huge. I’ve seen eagles flying higher up, [...]
Fall Birds
I started filling the bird feeders a couple of weeks ago — I’m not going to provide free board for the greedy little bastards during the summer when they can make their own living — & I’ve seen house finches, grosbeaks, hairy & downy woodpeckers, greater & lesser nuthatches, billions of chickadees, blue jays, juncos. [...]
First Hard Frost
I covered the last of the basil & peppers with a tarp last night, then brought them in this morning. The weather was clear this morning, with a mist over the river that burned off early & we had a couple of hours of sunshine before the clouds moved in. Raining now, temperature in the [...]
A Hundred Bluejays
Carole & I were standing out on the deck a couple of evenings ago. The deck faces the river, though the water is mostly screened by trees. We’re deep in the woods here, so we have lots of birds & the jays have been active lately, calling & rattling around in the trees, but [...]
Loon & Chikadees
I noticed yesterday that the chickadees have come down from the higher mountains. Saw them nosing around the empty feeders. And this morning early we heard a loon fly over, laughing. A cool wind out of the north. Fall.
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