re: Birds at your Feeder: 2024

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Lucky you. They dont visit my feeder but my mother has a birdhouse they visit and nest in every year. Cute little birds.

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If you want to try a Bluebird house, I'm in the second year of using four of these:



I've used them along with my other, traditional Bluebird houses. I mounted mine the same, on a pole like that. They're the easiest house to monitor and clean. You just squeeze the PVC pipe and it comes off of the mount, look at the nest, and put it back. They're relatively easy to make, too, or I think some people sell them. I made mine out of scrap material I had around.

I'll be changing all of mine over to these as my other houses have to be retired.

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Is there a less portly version of this bird?

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Juncos are in the sparrow family so they’re fairly small. They have white stripes in their tail feathers as they fly. They winter in the south and will be gone by spring.

My fave ruby picture I've taken.




I used to just visit my parents to photograph at their feeders, but we've got a good space to feed some birds now so trying to get that setup.

We have some pileated woodpeckers that hang around. They're pretty shy but we hear them and sometimes see them. Saw an albino Cardinal last year.

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i don't actually have a feeder up right now, but i've been seeing these birds in the orchard and at the pond

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Good to hear you're getting more down that way now.

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Juncos are in the sparrow family so they’re fairly small. They have white stripes in their tail feathers as they fly. They winter in the south and will be gone by spring.

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That's why the old timers, my Pops included, call them snowbirds. They believed they brought the snow with them.

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That's why the old timers, my Pops included, call them snowbirds. They believed they brought the snow with them.

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Some may remember the Atlanta snow/icestorm about ten years ago that shut the whole city down because it wasn't forecasted until about 12 hours prior, with whatever models they used. About 3 days prior, an old black lady that worked as a security guard at my office building told me it was going to snow, because she'd seen the "snow birds".

Birds are frickin' dinosaurs, maaaan

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I felt bad for the fish...he kept slamming it on the ground before he ate it

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You've had it bad between this and the mantis eating the dragonfly.