Re: fat birdies

That really ugly bird is probably a starling. Having lived, many moons ago, in Minnesota, I have no problem with the current temperatures; in fact, I enjoy winter much more than our west central Illinois summers. I feed safflower seeds, niger, and suet (refuse to make the birds share with the "tree rats", ie. squirrels). Most frequent visitors are doves, cardinals, nuthatches, chickadees, tufted titmouse, goldfinches, juncos, red breasted woodpecker, hairy and downy woodpeckers, cardinals, jays, and a variety of native sparrows.
Cathy, west central IL, z5b

On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 08:50 PM, Richard T. Apking wrote:

Pam--How are you making it? Here after the nice weather about 10 days ago,
it is now zero, the high today was 6, expected to warm up to the low 20's
this weekend. I have quite a bunch of birds here, the finches (house, gold,
and purple) generally munch down on the niger seed. The sparrows,
cardinals, jays, nuthatches, and, believe it or not, the woodpeckers and
some black with gold speckled really ugly bird eat sunflower hearts.
Started using them so there wasn't so much debris around the feeder. There
are a couple of white pine trees near the feeders, so some cover is
provided, also a heated bird bath, which really gets a workout. Rich,
freezing in Z-5
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