23 November 2008

Butter-butts

Winter tends to be a little slow around my back yard. Pigeons and Mourning Doves tend to dominate the landscape as well as the feeders. I feel silly paying top dollar for black oil sunflower seeds just to have them devoured in 20 minutes by a flock of unruly pigeons, but I do it nonetheless.

Last year I had one single Yellow-rumped Warbler that would stop by occasionally and visit my suet feeder. I assumed it was just one individual bird because I never saw more than one at a time. Who knows, maybe Butter-butts just have really good buffet-line manners and they were taking turns.

Anyway, this year word seems to have gotten around to the rest of the warblers that I serve a mean breakfast, because by 8:00 a.m. these days I have no less that 7 or 8 of them flitting about and generally just annoying the larger birds.

They're joined occasionally by a House Finch and a few American Goldfinches.


The Bluebirds are still hanging around too. That box is one that I made and gave to our neighbors. The birds check it out regularly, hopefully they'll nest there next Spring.

2 comments:

Mary said...

Darn. You have warblers. How can we live so close and have different birds? Oh, you are near a nature trail :o)

Hey, my pigeons left the day after I pulled the feeders. Where are they now? Hmmmm?

Corey said...

Isn't it strange? I have seen one Junco in my yard in the nearly 4 years I've lived here, last year the morning we got that snowfall. I don't even see them at the nature trail, which is over-run with every other kind of sparrow you can name.

Thanks for the pigeons . . next time can I just have a lump of coal?