Re: fat birdies

Apparently they flock here.  I really need to learn more about their habits.

on 01/23/2003 7:31 AM, Pamela J. Evans at gardenqueen@gbronline.com wrote:

> Do robins fly South for the winter? We still have them, but y'all never
> mention them up North. We also get the goldfinches in winter duds. But
> they go back North in summer. I've seen them up in Claremore - very
> pretty in their summer/mating plumage.
> 
> 
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: Aplfgcnys@aol.com
> Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Date:  Wed, 22 Jan 2003 22:37:08 EST
> 
>> In a message dated 01/22/2003 6:53:59 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>> gardenqueen@gbronline.com writes:
>> 
>>> How do y'all up North keep your biries going in such abominable cold??  Just
>>> curious.....
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> Always put seed out the night before so they will have something first thing
>> in the morning if we should happen to sleep late (doesn't often happen.)  We
>> feed only sunflower hearts, which all sorts of birds seem quite happy with.
>> We also hang wire cages of a suet-peanut mix purchased from Duncraft, or my
>> own peanutbutter-oatmeal-sunflower seed mix, which is their very favorite.
>> We have to bring my home-made mix in when the @#$$%^ starlings arrive,
>> because they can finish a cake of it in minutes.
>> I worry about our birds in this cold - it's 8 degrees here right now and so
>> windy the wind-chill must be 15 below - but the number of birds seems to
>> increase rather than decrease.  I counted 7 tufted titmice visible at one
>> time this morning, in addition to five downy woodpeckers, several chickadees
>> and a couple of nuthatches.  We also have cardinals, blue jays, Carolina
>> wrens, a regular flock of about 15 doves, red-bellied woodpeckers.
>> white-throated sparrows, goldfinches and a few either purple or house finches
>> (I'm not sure which) and one rufous-sided towhee who has been around all
>> winter and visits the feeder regularly.  This is the first year I have seen
>> him in the winter - usually just  in the spring.These are the regulars.
>> Others stray in from time to time - saw a red-tailed hawk sitting in a tree
>> the other day, but he flew away without doing any damage.  There is a large
>> flock of crows that are based near here and come by a few times each day -
>> and then those plagued starlings.  I keep telling myself that they're God's
>> creatures too, and need something to eat just as much as the others, but
>> they're so greedy and noisy.
>> Stay warm.  Auralie - Westchester County, NY - Z5
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