MIGRATION

[AgentOrange]

I forgot the video. Videos are important as we may have people here like Rachel Jeantel reading the forum. http://www.howcast.com/videos/150955...s-to-Your-Yard

This is not utube, so you may have to click or copy/paste.

[AgentOrange]

Hermit Thrush showed up today. He is already taking a bath in the Branch. They have spent every Winter with me here. My yard has lots of Winter berries, their favorite food. Mine are named wrong, not hermits at all.

Here is a photo from last year.

[AgentOrange]

This is an exciting day on the porch.
Looked down and a Black and White Warbler was taking a bath.


He sharing with a Titmouse.




I am so happy !!!

[AgentOrange]

Now there is a Tennessee Warbler in the Holly, but he keeps jumping, can't get a shot of him.

[AgentOrange]

First Yankee Chipping Sparrow just arrived. Soon I will have a couple hundred that will be in the yard 24/7. They eat millet, about 150 pounds before Winter is over. Soon they will be joined by White Throat Sparrows, Juncos, and Song Sparrows who also prefer millet. All are birds who like to eat off the ground, so they prefer hopper type feeders as opposed to tube feeders.



Here is Sir Percival, he is very patient, and like me, loves ground birds.



Here is a guy defending his turf from a Yankee invader:

[AgentOrange]

Song Sparrow made it in today. I think this is everyone now.

Song Sparrows are the biggest bathers in the flock. Nobody washes as much as Song Sparrows.
They are seed eaters and hang out with the other Sparrows types.

In years past, my favorite Winter bird has been the Pine Warbler. Then the numbers decreased, last year just a few, this year .
My flock must have been wiped out by Al Gore and his wind machines which considering everything, add more carbon than they reduce, kinda like ethanol. The only thing they do is transfer our tax $$ to the pockets of the rich --> fuck us peasants or a few Pine Warblers.