LOL, that's great:)
I didn't get any bird feeders, but some of my family members enjoyed watching my bird feeders, my daughter and DIL, who are neighbors was telling me about a bird they have in their yards every morning. I couldn't tell what they were describing and so we looked thru the bird book I have and it turned out to be an Eastern meadowlark. I don't have them here which is funny, I'm only about 6 miles as the crow flies from them. But my area is all woods, and they have flat pasture land.
I've had a pair of Northern Flicker Woodpeckers hanging around my feeders this past week. I'd never seen one before, They are pretty good size birds.
Becky
Oh, and I have an interesting bird story, that my husband told me.
He was at a church in Tulsa giving a bid on their parking lot. We went to this church years ago when we lived in Tulsa and at that time they had lots and lots of Bradford Pear Trees growing in the islands in the parking lots. They were all cut down when my husband was there giving th bid and he asked the guy he was talking to about them. The man told him they had to cut them down because of the thousands of birds that nested/roosted in those trees. They tried everything to get rid of the birds, but for years these birds just stayed, the only cure was to cut the trees down.
Have you ever heard that Bradford pears attracts a certain type of bird??? I think it may have been grackles. The reason I ask is we had a shopping center here in Bixby that had Bradford pears, and I noticed in one of those trees there were always tons of birds, and they always made a lot of noise. It was growing were a light was right over it, I figured it was the light that was attracting them to that particular tree.
Becky