re: Birds at your Feeder: 2024

We don't get nearly as much at the feeders as we do in the yard in general. Just some of the birds we've recorded on our property:

Blue Jay
Nortern Cardinal
Carolina Chickadee
Robin
Carolina Wren
House Wren
Winter Wren
Blue-gray gnatcatcher
Pileated woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
House finch
House sparrow
Chipping sparrow
Savannah sparrow
White-throated sparrow
American Goldfinch
Yellow-rumped warbler
Orange-crowned warbler
Eastern phoebe
Eastern Bluebird
Great-crested flycatcher
Red-winged blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Rusty blackbird
Eastern meadowlark
Mourning dove
Cedar waxwing
Ruby-crowned kinglet

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Cedar waxwing

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They usually pass through a little later than this for me. They'll hit the cherry laurel trees hard when they come through, unless a flock of early Robbins beats them to them again. They're another favorite of mine.

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Cat Bird

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I can't tell you how many times I've gone outside looking for a cat in distress only to realize it was that little meow imitating bastard.

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I can't tell you how many times I've gone outside looking for a cat in distress only to realize it was that little meow imitating bastard.

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We had a bumper crop of them this Spring/Summer. They, along with the damned Brown Cowbirds, and shitty European Starlings always run together and would take over the birdbath at least once a day. The Catbirds keep terrible company.

I've used the peanut (called woodpecker mix, I think), the peanut dough, and the seed, nut, and berry mix. I have so far snuffed the squirrels. They've eyed it, but never been able to get to it.

I am sitting in my chair looking at mine now. Have several chirping sparrows and ringneck doves. Saw 7 eastern bluebirds on my fence around noon.

The Bluebirds in my boxes raised 10 clutches this year, down from 15 last year. I see many of them on the powerlines and hitting the mealworms. The early Spring/late freeze aborted two clutches that I know of, and I had more pressure from House Sparrows this year than last.

Two clutches of Tree Swallows, too. Two pair raised young. They only have one clutch a year, though a pair attempted a second this year, but it didn't happen.

I forgot to mention the Doves on my list. They're so common that I sometimes overlook them.

Above, along with house finches and with recent arrival of red winged blackbirds and mourning doves hanging around the tree with the feede

The mourning doves usually migrate through my area by this time. Around October/November they are everywhere. Haven't seen any recently in Zone 8 outside ATL. They just ramble on down further south for the winter.