Sunday, February 4, 2007

Good Birds Do Well at Feeder

From 9:15 to 10:45 a.m. on the 15th of January, various birds made 153 trips to our bird feeder. A few of them stayed there several minutes, but most of them merely came and went rapidly.
The sun was behind clouds except times for a moment when the sky was blue between the clouds.
The birds at the feeder mostly came for less than a minute, but some birds mainly house finches, house sparrows, tufted titmice, chickadees, downy woodpeckers, and red-bellied woodpeckers, ate on the feeder about four minutes.
Shortly after the hour and a half of feeding, some birds came back to the feeder. They no longer included everything before. A bird in the first round was red at the top of the head and red under the chin. A look at a bird book identified it as a Yellow-bellied sapsucker.
Two different kinds of doves stay near but not on the feeder. They eat the seeds that are dropped to the ground by the birds at the feeder.
In 2 hours on the 18th day of January, 2007, the various birds fed on the feeder at a total of 2,94 times. This was more of them than usually come to our feeder, although the day was cold.
The red-bellied woodpecker, downy woodpecker, house finch and house sparrows stayed on the feeder several times, up to 4 minutes. The chickadees, tufted titmice, and others came and went immediately. All birds stayed in my feeder several times in 2 hours.
From 9:30 to 10:30 birds came 406 times to my feeder. Only a few downy woodpeckers stayed there four or five minutes. The others came and went rapidly.
After 10:30, many more birds came to the feeder. It was cold outside—mostly at 40 or 50 degrees.
Birds that came to the feeder from 9:30 to 10:30 on January 20th included Tufted titmice, Chicadees, House finch, House sparrows, Downy woodpeckers, and Red-bellied woodpeckers.
On the 26th of January, 2007, I saw 84 birds on our feeder. At 9:30 to 10:30, and 54 birds on the feeder from 10:30 to 11:30. They included Red-bellied woodpeckers, Downy woodpeckers, Chickadees, Tufted titmice, House Sparrow, House Finch, and no rain this day.
At 4:00 o’clock to 4:20, on January 27, birds ate at the feeder by my house, and start eating. A Downy woodpecker ate from 4:21 to 4:26.
No one ate more until the next day.
On the 27th day of January, in 2007, it turned colder by thirty-five and forty third day. In that period, the number of birds who came to the feeder was 180.
When we got back from church on the 28th of January, 2007, 32 birds ate at the feeder in 20 minutes, until Genie filled the feeder from the bottom. Immediately , 84 birds ate at the feeder in 20 minutes.

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