[Mnbird] A wondrous week in birds
Sally Staggert
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Wed Jun 26 20:17:25 CDT 2024
Love it!
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On Wednesday, June 26, 2024, 2:05 PM, John Hamer via Mnbird <mnbird at lists.mnbird.net> wrote:
Sounds great. I have taken over the bird feeders for the Glenn. The spot where they have the feeders is right next to a ten foot long brush. It is perfect for the sparrows except for the cooper's hawk. He/she comes around the corner about one foot off the ground moving fast, sweeps into the shrubs and comes out with a meal.
I can't seem to enrich the variety. Any thoughts. I discovered a chipping sparrow yesterday.
John Hamer
On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 1:25 PM Allen Batt via Mnbird <mnbird at lists.mnbird.net> wrote:
On a rare night without rain, I watched a baseball game at Mueller Park in New Ulm and listened to Common Nighthawks flying overhead and calling for “beans,” but eating flying insects instead. At home, I watched two suet holders do a thriving business. The birds I saw feeding on suet over the week were: Brown Thrasher, Gray Catbird, Red-headed Woodpecker, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Downy Woodpecker, Hairy Woodpecker, European Starling, House Sparrow, Common Grackle, White-breasted Nuthatch, Baltimore Oriole, Blue Jay and that gold standard of birds, the Black-capped Chickadee. A Hairy Woodpecker male displayed noisily with his bill pointed upward and bobbing from side to side of the suet feeder. I found a Red-winged Blackbird nest with three eggs (blue with black markings) in it, which was 2 feet off the ground in a Canada Thistle in a prairie planting. In Disney’s animated version of “Alice in Wonderland,” the White Rabbit sang, “I'm late, I'm late, for a very important date! No time to say ‘Hello,’ goodbye! I'm late, I'm late, I'm late!” My yard’s version of the White Rabbit was a late Blackburnian Warbler here on June 19. It posed for a photo, noticed the time and fled the scene. A Eurasian Tree Sparrow has been a recurring guest star on the suet feeders.
“Do something wild today. Look at a bird.” — Al Batt, Freeborn County
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