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To: MamaTexan
Your squirrel does look like he's smiling!

Yesterday, I stopped and bought meal worms for the bluebirds in the nestbox on the arbor. But I got just as many flycatchers interested in the worm bowl :-) as I did bluebirds.

907 posted on 05/04/2005 11:27:04 AM PDT by Tuscaloosa Goldfinch (Thank goodness "Terayza" is not first lady.)
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To: Tuscaloosa Goldfinch; GodBlessUSA; sweetliberty
I would love to see a wild bluebird! I could probably see more birds, but sometimes buying food for them is as expensive as trying to buy meat for the family! :)

GodBlessUSA, Magnolia Warblers are very pretty, but their SINGING...it's wonderful. Only see them every so often, but one was singing the other day, and it was like a stream of music so pure it hurt your ears. (Does that sound goofy?)

The Cardinals are in full song, too.

Or as my husband called it the other day-

"Screaming their heads off!"

LOL!

I also must admit yet another birdy boo-boo. What I've been calling Red Headed Woodpeckers... aren't.

They are Golden Fronted Woodpeckers, which reside almost exclusively in Texas. Still haven't gotten a pic, but Google is a wonderful thing!

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Description 9 1/2" (24 cm). Barred with black and white above and buff below, like Red-bellied Woodpecker, but male has red restricted to cap; nape orange; forecrown yellow; female lacks red but has orange nape.

Golden-fronted Woodpecker

:)

910 posted on 05/04/2005 2:05:35 PM PDT by MamaTexan (I would rather stand with the few who are right than the many who are wrong!)
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