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 thisrecord-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),I'd seen juncos go up
and at least one song sparrow.
It was the first time in my 18 years of birding that
to and land on and use feeders. In the years when Iwas allowed to have
feeders in my yard, they always stayed on the ground -or on the snow.
