I have to admit that I am getting bird nerdy as I get older. I feed the birds in our backyard and have accumulated quite a following of birds there. Over the last year or so I have played around with the birdseed mixture as well as added new feeders with different foods. I now have three feeders: a standard one with a mix of birdseed, a suet feeder, and a thistle seed feeder.
In the past year our usual sparrows and mourning doves have been joined by goldfinches (who like the thistle seed), downy woodpeckers(who like the suet), cardinals (who go for the Cardinal mix in my main feeder), and, more recently, robins and blue jays. I'm excited about the Jays since I have seen them very rarely in our yard but I've seen one twice in the last three days so I'm hoping it/they stay.
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| A hawk squatting on a light pole behind our house. |
Also attracted to our backyard, and the new street light poles the city has installed behind out house, is a hawk that, I expect, is hunting critters that feed off the seed that falls from the feeders.
I will have to try to get some pictures to post as I discover new birds checking out our yard.
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