[ken5050]

Don't know if you saw this:

"Snowy owl on a perch in rush hour Washignton, DC"

If its diet is RINOs , happy hunting, I say!!

[shankbear]

I spotted a yellow bellied liberal at another bird’s feeder mooching as usual.

[cripplecreek]

I’m working on my second 40lb bag of feed for 3 feeders.

[Tennessee Nana]

yes

SE TN

I usually have up to 4 pairs of Cardinals every year..

yesterday and today there are 8 pairs ..

several Blue Jays plus other birds I don’t think Ive seen before..

and they managed to knock one of the feeders off the branch it was anchored on and onto the ground where it broke..

They disappeared to the front yard to the other bigger feeder..

They can just come back and eat all the seeds on the ground..

but this is a bad week for them to only have one..

it also means I have to go outside in the cold every day to fill the one..

Instead of every other day..

:(

[mplsconservative]

Here in MN, we’ve been going through 10 lbs. of premium mix every day. We’ve also been putting out around 100 peanuts for the Blue Jays and Cardinals. We’ve had hundreds of birds visit, mainly in the types you mention.

Last week, Boom!, no more birds. It was then I noticed a new type of bird perched on the gazebo on our deck. We now have a red-tailed Hawk stalking the yard. That explains the absence of the other birds. I feel so sorry for them with the string of below zero weather we’re experiencing. -22 air temp is predicted Monday night. *sigh*

[SoKatt]

I’m in Fairfield, Ct. and my list is similar to yours; Bluejays, Cardinals, Downy and Red-bellied Woodpeckers, Juncos, Chickadees, Nuthatches and Sparrows. Last weekend- before the snow hit- I saw 4 MONK PARAKEETS at the platform feeder! We have a large population of these non-native critters and I have seen them by the water but never at my backyard feeders. I am both excited and hoping that they don’t stick around...they would clean me out. :)

[BuffaloJack]

We received a citation for operating an illegal bird feeder in our back yard last year. And the fine was $200.
I didn’t even know that it was illegal to have a bird feeder until I got the citation.

[b4its2late]

It’s been so cold up north here that every morning I see Progressive’s walking around with their hands in their own pockets for once.

[Wiser now]

Nothing unusual at all. I haven’t seen a Carolina Wren since we moved three years ago. We are in southwestern Ohio. Where are you finding that cherry sunflower seed?

[jespasinthru]

That is so cool. This time of year in Florida the only migrating birds we see are the grackles, the black-and white magpies, and the big black crows. And they’re just passing through, on their way to South America. The only local birds that hang around all year are the big skinny egrets, the blue herons, the osprey hawks, and those huge, ugly turkey vultures. And those nasty seagulls, of course. They’re very aggressive, and they’ve got an attitude.

[Manic_Episode]

We have a window feeder and have been getting chickadees and squirrels every day. Wife used to chase off the squirrels but I think they are fun to watch from so close up so she got used to them and even named them. Wife saw a pair of Blue Jays the other day.

[4everontheRight]

Upstate SC - I saw a couple of cardinals this week for the first time in weeks. I have really had no birds for the most part for weeks. But this week a few have come back or come by. I saw a strange one yesterday burrowing into my now dead rosemary plant. He was almost olive shaded of a wren? He was s very small little fella. I have all my seed feeders in the back yard but went and got a small dish and put him some seed in the front. I was hoping to see him again to get a better look and get the old "Bird Book" out to try to ID him.

We have been very cold for this area as I guess most have. This morning it was 7° here, 4° below with the windchill. I guess birds have flown further south than South Carolina.

[null and void]

ping

[Calm_Cool_and_Elected]

I do the Cornell Labs Feeder Watch and here’s my list for the past two days:

House finches, downy woodpeckers, hairy woodpeckers, Carolina wren, yellow-bellied sapsucker, tufted titmouse, white-throated sparrows, northern cardinals, red-bellied woodpeckers, eastern towhees, eastern bluebirds, yellow-rumpled warblers, mourning doves, Carolina chickadees, ruby-crowned kinglet, white-breasted nuthatch, brown thrasher, goldfinches, pine siskins, blue jays, and a mockingbird.

Typically see 20 - 30 species a week here in central NC. Temp was mid to upper 20s today.

[Rodamala]

I was home in rural Hunterdon County, NJ for Christmas and New Years and as God is my witness, I saw a Robin fly over to my mom’s Koi pond, land on the ice and take a drink from where the circulating pump is set up to agitate the surface to leave a hole in the ice.

I never ever in my whole life saw Robins wintering over before there.

[Oratam]

Very little activity at the thistle and suet feeders in my Brooklyn Heights backyard. Last year it was a feeding frenzy.

Based on what another poster has written, I wonder if an apex predator has moved into the neighborhood . . . I mean, apart from the bipedal kind.

[Rodamala]

Also, on 12/26/13...

He is a very tame banded bird... visits my parents' every day to pick the sunflower seeds the snow buntings don't get that have been slopped on the ground by the nuthatches, cardinals, flickers, tufted titmice, house finches, even some wintering over goldfinches.

Dad's cat was all acting like he was ready to go have Christmas dinner... When presented with the option however, he chose wisely.

Amazing how tame this guy is... Would come right over to me like chickens when I scattered some seeds from the bottom tray of the tube feeder. Mom is excited about the turkey... but is not excited that it likes to leave turkey crap on her patio and front doorstep.

[Ciexyz]

The usual sparrows and doves. Weather this AM was thirteen below with the wind chill. I live in western PA and we’re to get two to four inches of snow starting late tobite. Haven’t seen a squirrel at my feeder for about five days, they must be hibernating.

[MayflowerMadam]

Here in East TN our feeder is full of cardinals and bluejays. Have seen a couple of red-bellied woodpeckers (no red-headed woodpeckers yet this year), which we’d not seen before.

For about a month, once in a while a big ol’ owl has taken to sitting in the back yard — on the ground — for a couple hours a day. He watches the deer and turkeys wander by but doesn’t move. Interesting.

[jespasinthru]

In late February the red-winged blackbirds will show up and hang around until early May, when it gets too hot for them and they head back up north. I love those little birds for the short while that they’re around. They have a sweet, piercing song that just makes me feel good. I keep a bird feeder hanging off a limb of my oak tree, and I put raw corn on the cob around to keep the fat, greedy gray squirrels out of the bird feeder. After the red-winged blackbirds leave for the summer, the local mockingbirds try to imitate their song. But it’s just not the same.