Just had a 1/2 hour this afternoon to check out activity at the feeder:

N Cardinal 3
House Sp 3
White Cr Sp 7
Chickadee - probably both kinds, several
Tufted Tit - 3
American Goldfinch - 3
Song Sp - 1
DE Junco - 1

Present today, but not during my count period
N Mockingbird
Downey W
Morning Dove - 2

The count period was marked by activity at both ends of the period with a lull of 10 or more minutes in between.  During this lull a Tufted T and a female N Card were sitting near to and facing each other.  The TT especially seemed to be in a sort of torpor.  All the while, however, the TT had a sunflower seed grasped in his feet and eventually seemed to remember it and chowed down on it.  Activity started up again with the appearance of a Chickadee.

Present also on the homesite was a Garter snake catching some cloud filtered rays.  The first time i encountered him/her i poked at it gently and was surprised to see it have no trouble backing up into its burrow.  I guess they can reverse the directionality of the scales with serpentine motion powering it either in forward or reverse - interesting.

Jim (Michael) Speicher
jugornought—at—yahoo-dot-com
Bethesda  AT work :(
Broad Run_S. FRED Co  AT home


      

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