Post by ian on Feb 18, 2012 23:15:34 GMT -8
It seems like a broken record but the best birding often seems to come when sitting in the Lazy-boy having our morning coffee staring out the patio door into the yard.
With the heavy rain this morning we had a great feeder frenzy off our patio and had a feeder-lifer and some first of the Spring visitors.
The highlight was our first Common Redpoll at our feeder, and there might even have been two different birds over the hour.
The other treat were two male and five female Redwing Blackbirds on the feeder, with as many as nine total up in our adjacent tree.
Our coffee list this morning included (at any one time) 3 Flickers,
Male Hairy Woodpecker, M&F Downies, 2 Anna's Hummingbirds, Spotted Towhee, 20 Pine Siskin, M&F House Sparrow, 12 American Goldfinches, 4 House Finches, Juncos, Starlings, Crows...
but the Redpoll was the icing!
I'm sure we would have seen less if the weather was better and we had extricated ourselves from the comfy seats and into the wilds...
With the heavy rain this morning we had a great feeder frenzy off our patio and had a feeder-lifer and some first of the Spring visitors.
The highlight was our first Common Redpoll at our feeder, and there might even have been two different birds over the hour.
The other treat were two male and five female Redwing Blackbirds on the feeder, with as many as nine total up in our adjacent tree.
Our coffee list this morning included (at any one time) 3 Flickers,
Male Hairy Woodpecker, M&F Downies, 2 Anna's Hummingbirds, Spotted Towhee, 20 Pine Siskin, M&F House Sparrow, 12 American Goldfinches, 4 House Finches, Juncos, Starlings, Crows...
but the Redpoll was the icing!
I'm sure we would have seen less if the weather was better and we had extricated ourselves from the comfy seats and into the wilds...
