Yes, we've had juncos eating from our feeder in Alexandria. Today we
had a flicker eating suet from a vertical woodpecker feeder.
Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Deapesh Misra" <deapesh@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Scott Jackson-Ricketts" <scottjr@xxxxxx>; "Stephen Eccles"
<stephendeccles@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 11:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Va-bird] birds today - Annandale back yard
Hi,
For us, it was another 'first time of Junco in the feeder' day here in
Fairfax today. :)
But the feeder it visited was a wooden house-type feeder with mixed seeds.
We had on the ground of our balcony:
* 12+ Juncos
* Purple Finches
* 2 pairs of Cardinals
* 3 Song Sparrows
* 3 White Throated Sparrows
* 2 Carolina Wrens
which were feeding continuously THROUGHOUT the day !!
It was a delight to hear the Juncos call from so near. My wife thinks that
they resemble the sound of a laser gun going off on some intergalactic
spaceship!
Their fights are also very interesting. (It reminded me of the mating dance
of certain snakes.)
Notable feeder absentees for today: a regular group of Mourning Doves and
squirrels.
-Deapesh
Fairfax.
--- On Sat, 12/19/09, Stephen Eccles <stephendeccles@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I also had a 'junco in the
feeder' today; but even more surprising, it was eating
perched at the niger seed feeder.
Stephen Eccles
Annandale
On 12/19/09, Scott Jackson-Ricketts <scottjr@xxxxxx>
wrote:
Right about the
juncos. I exclaimed to my dear wife and at home
college kids, "What, juncos IN the feeder?"
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Reid Williamson <geopathman@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Although I did not expect any activity in this
record-breaking storm, my
> neighbor's feeders did provide me with
> a half-dozen goldfinches,
> a white-throated sparrow,
> a half-dozen dark-eyed juncos,
> two cardinals (M&F),
> and at least one song sparrow.
>
> It was the first time in my 18 years of birding that
I'd seen juncos go up
> to and land on and use feeders. In the years when I
was allowed to have
> feeders in my yard, they always stayed on the ground -
or on the snow.
