Re: FUN Yard Day

Marcia Watson-Whitmyre (mww@UDel.Edu)
Wed, 30 Sep 1998 13:58:12 -0400 

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Harry Fisher wrote:

> hi all:
> A first for me this am, Black-throated Green W.  foraging in wild cherry
> along the side of our property, a brightly marked mature male.  A
> Carolina Wren seems to have taken up residence, also a first.  It looks
> like a first yr. bird( almost no tail ), and has been around for the
> last 3 wks.  While watering my impatiens, I heard a whirring sound, and
> to my delight a female RT .hummer began feeding less than 3 ft. away.  (
> I turned off the water).  As I stood glued to the spot, it made the
> rounds of the impatiens and cardinal flowers, then was on its` way. I
> will add that it ignored the feeders.   Goldfinches present in flocks of
> a dozen or so,foraging on pussy willow shrub and especially loving
> riverbirch trees.

Good for you, Leslie.  You know, I usually keep my feeders full all
year-round, but this year I had a lot of squirrel damage to feeders so I
stopped feeding until the feeder poles could be moved to a better spot. (All
my feeders are on poles with squirrel guards, which generally works, but
some nearby shrubs got so big that the squirrels started using them to jump
up). I still haven't re-started feeding yet. I think this has affected the
number of insect eaters as well as seed eaters in my yard- I guess because
birds travel in mixed flocks, and maybe because all the activity at the
feeders attracts the bug eaters as well as seed eaters.  I have lower
numbers of species and of individuals within species at my yard than ever
before in the fall.  Gotta get those poles moved!
Marcia Watson-Whitmyre
Cecil County

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