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For the birds!
Mar. 2nd, 2009 12:23 pmA couple weeks ago I purchased a wire cage and a block of the berry suet to put inside it and hung it in the little maple tree outside the kitchen window.
It took a couple days for the birds to find it but since they have, I get to enjoy the parade of grateful cardinals, wrens, snowbirds, tufted titmouse (no really!)flickers hermit thrush (!) and nuthatches who are gratefully dining on it. Oh, there's the occasional starling but I try to scare them away. Thanks to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
brotherwilliam for pointing out to me the names of the birds; I hadn't a clue but I knew that the black and white fluffy ones weren't sparrows! Yesterday I saw an Eastern Meadowlark, repeated visits from a pair of Ladderback Woodpecker as well as a Black-capped Chickodee. How do I know? My google-fu found this: http://www.birdsofoklahoma.net/index.html
The female Woodpecker is at it right now. VERY cool! Oop, there she goes!
This little guy is SO cute! http://www.birdsofoklahoma.net/PygmyNuthatch.htm
Incidentally, I'm used to Robins being a harbinger of Spring...but not down here; they LIVE here all year 'round. And I'm seeing a bunch of them. So if they disappear from your place during the winter; I'm guessing that they come to Oklahoma!
It took a couple days for the birds to find it but since they have, I get to enjoy the parade of grateful cardinals, wrens, snowbirds, tufted titmouse (no really!)
brotherwilliam for pointing out to me the names of the birds; I hadn't a clue but I knew that the black and white fluffy ones weren't sparrows! Yesterday I saw an Eastern Meadowlark, repeated visits from a pair of Ladderback Woodpecker as well as a Black-capped Chickodee. How do I know? My google-fu found this: http://www.birdsofoklahoma.net/index.htmlThe female Woodpecker is at it right now. VERY cool! Oop, there she goes!
This little guy is SO cute! http://www.birdsofoklahoma.net/PygmyNuthatch.htm
Incidentally, I'm used to Robins being a harbinger of Spring...but not down here; they LIVE here all year 'round. And I'm seeing a bunch of them. So if they disappear from your place during the winter; I'm guessing that they come to Oklahoma!
