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Here's what I've seen around the feeders so far:

3 House Finches
2 Carolina Wrens
2 White-Breasted Nuthatches
2 House Sparrows

Still hoping for some Cardinals, Blue Jays, & woodpeckers in particular. :-)

 

 

3 young robins today

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New Additions to Life List: semipalmated plover, prairie warbler, belted kingfisher, ruddy turnstone

Wow you have seen all that....spectacular..... I have been on the lookout......

Ok I have been having fun with baby starlings.....lol..now I know most wouldn't be impressed with this at all...but heh, I love the birds no one else will.

My landlord said to me today...." We saw about 5 birds on your window sill the other day".  I told her it is because I place raisins in a parade along the window sill for whover and the starlings like them and feed 'em to their young. ( A squirrel comes to my window almost every day looking for food too). It is so funny to watch a bird that is about the size of mom yet fatter looking and following her around with open mouth and loud call for food. They are here every day on my birdfeeder roof.  The babies (well or juveniles) look so lost sometimes. One today was even following a mourning dove it seemed for a bit. Just like an infant they don't know how to feed themselves. When watching from the other side of the window it seemed like mom was really shoving the food deep into baby's mouth. I realized though that if not placed far enough back the baby seems to drop it out of its mouth again. I love observing bird behaviors.

I am trying to see who is being born but some of the places I go to have been under construction which is ruining habitat or there are too many fishermen or "unquiet" activities around.

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* laughs like crow, soars like eagle with vision of hawk, haunts like loon & lulls like nuthatch ....tickle tickle, feather has most powerful medicine of all...makes you laugh *

Add a Northern Cardinal to the list!  More House Sparrows too unfortunately.

Anyone else?

Four tufted titmice, still in the nest.

John

A Home for Wild Birds

 

More baby robins!  There should be some baby wrens out of the nest box soon too! 

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New Additions to Life List: semipalmated plover, prairie warbler, belted kingfisher, ruddy turnstone

I'm not yet sure if they are a type of finch or wren (yeah, still plowing through the newness of ID-ing), but there was a Momma and youngsters at my feeding area today.  The babies were fly-able, but still fluffy.  They could pick up their own food, but had much more fun following Momma around with open mouths and squeaking like crickets at her.  She was pretty frazzled trying to keep up with all three.  I had my tiny el-cheapo pair of mini-binoculars (twenty-five cents at a garage sale and not even worth that!) and was able to get a pretty good glimpse down a wide open baby mouth :)

 Do baby cottontails count? The cottons I've been feeding since last fall have had BABIES (I'm so excited) and I got to peek into the nest yesterday! Five itty bitty fur-balls with HUGE EARS! I'm a bunny-grandma! One of them has a white star on his little forehead and I'm in love.  Can't wait to see when they start coming out and about!  I got a really nice pic, too!

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...somewhere in a peaceful mountain range, a rabbit plots to take over the world....

Here's the babies I have had so far..

1) Robins(lots)

2) Grackles(lots)

3)Starlings(lots)

4) Downy Woodpecker(1)

5)Chickadee(2)

6)Blue Jays(2)

7)Mourning Dove(lots)

8)Brown-headed Cow bird(1)

9)Sparrows(lots)

 Would have had Cardinals but nest with babies was destroyed. We get lots of other birds but no babies yet.

I had a Juvenile Song Sparrow and a Juv. Winter Wren two days ago.
And Yesterday I had about 8 Baby Turkeys. Canada Goose goslings have also been common this year.

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2008 Yard List: 125
Recent: Pine Siskin, Swamp Sparrow
Highlights: Hoary Redpoll, Golden Eagle, Fish Crow
2008 Year List: 197
Recent: Pine Siskin, Northern Gannet, Red-necked Grebe
Highlights: Cackling Goose, Black Vulture, Merlin

2-4 Tufted Titmice showed up all at once yesterday.  They sure do a lot of yapping. :-)

Add a couple of nuthatches and at least one red-bellied woodpecker up here. (Suburban Boston).

Baby Geese everywhere..

I have had a few baby Junco's. It is cute to watch the moms teaching the babies and feeding them seeds. There is a robin making a nest in one of the deck trees.

I have so far seen at my feeders here juvenille

Sparrows, downy woodpeckers, whitebreasted nuthatches, tuffed titmouse, starlings, chipping sparrows,brownheaded cowbirds, squirrels, just to name a few

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Birds high above in the trees Serenade the flowers with their melodies

   From my Rhode Island backyard:

 A juvenile Red-bellied woodpecker demanding food from its tired looking father, more robins, and several juvenile cardinals

                                   Still waiting for the House Wrens

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New Additions to Life List: semipalmated plover, prairie warbler, belted kingfisher, ruddy turnstone