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#777
#777
Recent visitors to my seed feeder include White Breasted Nuthatches, Chickadees, Common Finches, Cardinals, Downy Woodpeckers, and Carolina Wrens, who pick up the little bits of sunflower seed kernels left by the finches (they’re messy eaters).
 
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#778
#778
Tin Man said:
Recent visitors to my seed feeder include White Breasted Nuthatches, Chickadees, Common Finches, Cardinals, Downy Woodpeckers, and Carolina Wrens, who pick up the little bits of sunflower seed kernels left by the finches (they’re messy eaters).
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Sounds like my wife’s list
 
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#780
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Tin Man said:
An immature golden eagle was perched on my dogwood. I was trying to get a picture and stepped quietly out of my screened porch, but it flew away before I could bring it into frame. A visitor brought in with the cold front.
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I'd love to see that
 
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Tin Man said:
An immature golden eagle was perched on my dogwood. I was trying to get a picture and stepped quietly out of my screened porch, but it flew away before I could bring it into frame. A visitor brought in with the cold front.
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Was it mouthing off?
 
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#784
#784
A pair of red shouldered hawks have nested ~1/2 mile from me as the hawk flies for 3 years now. They’ve successfully raised two broods and clearly plan to try again this year. A pair of red tails flew into the area and the sky was full of hawks calling. The red shoulders don’t want the red tails in this area. When vocalizations didn’t do the trick, the male red shoulder took to diving on the red tails in flight. It was like WWI aerial combat! I haven’t seen or heard the red tails in awhile, but they must be close enough for the red shoulder male to be calling still. Love it! Now, bring me migrating barred owls! I want to hear their caterwauling at night!
 
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#793
Some robins are behaving territorially. We’ll see if any stay when the cold front moves in.
 
#796
#796
2 Mourning Doves started coming around the feeder. Actually they hang out on the deck railing after they eat. It’s been like a drive thru today. Cardinals, wrens, tufted boobymouse, doves, blue jay.
Doves are funny as one will stand watch while the other eats then peck its partner a couple times to move aside.
 
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Tin Man said:
A pair of red shouldered hawks have nested ~1/2 mile from me as the hawk flies for 3 years now. They’ve successfully raised two broods and clearly plan to try again this year. A pair of red tails flew into the area and the sky was full of hawks calling. The red shoulders don’t want the red tails in this area. When vocalizations didn’t do the trick, the male red shoulder took to diving on the red tails in flight. It was like WWI aerial combat! I haven’t seen or heard the red tails in awhile, but they must be close enough for the red shoulder male to be calling still. Love it! Now, bring me migrating barred owls! I want to hear their caterwauling at night!
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Saw the pair of redtails again a couple of days ago in my oaks, and today the male is circling and calling (scree!) over the area where I believe the red shouldered hawks were nesting. Makes me wonder if the redtails chased the red shouldered hawks away and have stolen their nesting site. Though I think redtails prefer to build their own nests, I read that they aren’t against building atop the nests of other species if they like the site.
 
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Tin Man said:
Saw the pair of redtails again a couple of days ago in my oaks, and today the male is circling and calling (scree!) over the area where I believe the red shouldered hawks were nesting. Makes me wonder if the redtails chased the red shouldered hawks away and have stolen their nesting site. Though I think redtails prefer to build their own nests, I read that they aren’t against building atop the nests of other species if they like the site.
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Most Raptors will build on top of a current nest. We see this a lot with Eagles. But hopefully you have the red shoulders still there. I still have mine with the new mating red tails
 
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#799
#799
Remember the West Nile virus in the 90s? How it impacted certain species of birds?

These days, it seems to me that the raptors have recovered. I cannot conclude the same for titmice. Titmice were hit particularly hard. Once plentiful, with several breeding pairs visiting my yard, today, there doesn’t seem to be so many. Yes, titmice will visit my feeder, but none are nesting on my property, whereas before, there were two pairs dividing my property in half, one pair claiming the northern side, and another claiming the southern side. What is your observation of titmice in your area?
 
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Tin Man said:
Remember the West Nile virus in the 90s? How it impacted certain species of birds?

These days, it seems to me that the raptors have recovered. I cannot conclude the same for titmice. Titmice were hit particularly hard. Once plentiful, with several breeding pairs visiting my yard, today, there doesn’t seem to be so many. Yes, titmice will visit my feeder, but none are nesting on my property, whereas before, there were two pairs dividing my property in half, one pair claiming the northern side, and another claiming the southern side. What is your observation of titmice in your area?
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I live on a wooded lot so all I have are tits and chicks
 
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