Topic: 2010 Birds (Read 93498 times)

DragonSpeed · « **Reply #45 on:** April 27, 2010, 08:43:38 AM »

Quote from: Rodney on April 26, 2010, 10:36:05 PM

Wow - that's a lot of bushtits for this time of the year. Usually they are paired up by now and not in the usual winter "swarm" mode.

Rodney · « **Reply #46 on:** April 27, 2010, 10:16:43 AM »

Actually this was from a couple of months ago.

It only happened once so I just casually snapped a photo, thinking that it would be like that all the time.

Do you know where all the juncos have gone? We haven't seen any juncos or song sparrows in the backyard for a couple of weeks now. Nina thinks the seeds that we bought are poisonous.

DragonSpeed · « **Reply #47 on:** April 27, 2010, 11:06:01 PM »

Quote from: Rodney on April 27, 2010, 10:16:43 AM

Actually this was from a couple of months ago. It only happened once so I just casually snapped a photo, thinking that it would be like that all the time.

Wintertime... spring they pair off and summer... who knows.

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Do you know where all the juncos have gone? We haven't seen any juncos or song sparrows in the backyard for a couple of weeks now. Nina thinks the seeds that we bought are poisonous.

Juncos are at higher elevations. By summertime they'll be flitting around at 7000' Song sparrows are in and about but also busy making little song sparrows.
By far my most common customer now is the Pine Siskin (they could go north any time now!) and the goldfinches. Some housefinches too, but the chickadees are all busy doing the "birds and the bees"

Rodney · « **Reply #48 on:** April 27, 2010, 11:20:22 PM »

Interesting. All we have now are pairs of house finches flying down at a time and feeding together. Occasionally some chickadees come down too.

The other day I saw the first gold finch in the backyard.

Rodney · « **Reply #49 on:** April 29, 2010, 01:30:37 PM »

We've had lots of house finch around but this is the first close-up photo that I have gotten.

DragonSpeed · « **Reply #50 on:** April 29, 2010, 04:31:21 PM »

DragonSpeed · « **Reply #51 on:** May 01, 2010, 11:11:52 PM »

One of today's visitors It's a little bit noisy as I had to really pull up some shadows to get her to show nicely:

Rodney · « **Reply #52 on:** May 09, 2010, 06:19:09 PM »

Female house finch or pine siskin?

chris gadsden · « **Reply #53 on:** May 09, 2010, 08:16:03 PM »

Quote from: Rodney on May 09, 2010, 06:19:09 PM

Female house finch or pine siskin?

Maxine says it is a pine siskin.

Rodney · « **Reply #54 on:** May 09, 2010, 09:03:51 PM »

Excellent.

I was quite sure that it was a pine siskin. It behaved quite differently to the house finches, which all flew alway when I walked into the garden. The pine siskin just fed and looked at me while I walked closer to it.

Here are other ones from today.