Hubby found a cheap camera on sale at Radio Shack and this weekend is going to attempt a cardinal cam that more folks will be able to see. He'd ratther do about anything than real chores
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Jane go to redshanksoftware.com and download ClipBird. It is a FREE program that allows you to record daily lists of your bird sightings, WITH COMMENTS! It is perfect for the GBBC. As a matter of fact that's what most of us birders use now for ALL our birding records and reports. Here is the link:
I like birds too...... DOnt know the names except a robin.. ha ha he is robin my strawberys.
dodge...............
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Dodge the red head is a Male House Finch. A Male Purple Finch has the red head too. The females of BOTH species are just brown and white. Those brown and white birds with the red head are female House Finches.
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thanks..........Finches. i will try and rememeber that ......my sister is a giant bird watcher in her yard and has a book.. I live in the country and dont know one bird from the other.....
i did see a Heron in my dam one day..Has long legs.......So I did notice. They are really cute birds you show. And duckie an all else...... Only thing about duckies and geese.. They drop too much on the yard......daaaaaaaa
dodge
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There are many types of finches. House Finches and Purple Finches absolutely LOVE Black Oil Sunflower seeds, either from a tube feeder OR a platform feeder (the ground, flat board, or table top, like in the photos here.) The other common Finch in the Eastern U.S. and Canada is the American Goldfinch. These Finches like Black Oil Sunflower Seeds (BOSS),but they positively LOVE Black Niger Thistle Seed in a cloth mesh bag (Commonly called a, "Thistle Seed Sock"). Black Niger seed is rather expensive, though, running $7.00 to $10.00 for a 5-lb. bag, so I just take my chances with BOSS which I get for $12.00 for a 50-lb. bag at Tractor Supply Company.
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I thought it may be expensice hobby , cause my neighbor told me it costs her $4.00 each time her feeder is filled....
Glad it isnt my hobby.. Our state isnt fond of the feeders, cause in the summer the Bears are coming into the yards to eat out of them..... Make lots of damage if they come in groups on 3.
dodge
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I thought it may be expensice hobby , cause my neighbor told me it costs her $4.00 each time her feeder is filled....
Glad it isnt my hobby.. Our state isnt fond of the feeders, cause in the summer the Bears are coming into the yards to eat out of them..... Make lots of damage if they come in groups on 3.
dodge
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I spend about $100.00 a year on food for the birds and another $20.00 to $30.00 on feeders and other incidentals. Of course, these expensives are spread over a twelve month period! So that comes out to about $10.00 a month.
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Now harm in that......Better than drinking... WE spend plenty feeding our cows, so I dont need the extra expense...... Neighbors ducks come by each summer, also a Heron. Geese sometime and turkey .. Wild.
I love to look..My sister is a widow and loves their attention....Lives alone.
Do you get the Magazine" Birds and Blooms"? Sister does an saves me them.. cheap 12 for $12.00 and bright colored pages.
dodge
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Hi all, dodge, feeding the birds can get very addicting and expensive. Supplying water is a lot cheaper and can also get you lots of birds. Especially in winter,a heated birdbath on a frozen day is a guarentee of feathered friends. We attract more than a hundred birds a day, however, I am spending a king's ransom in bird food. I am making adjustments to get it under control I was sneaking bags of bird seed in with groceries all the time (so that money was hidden in grocery expenses)
Thistle (niger) seed for the goldfinches costs $8.97 for 10lbs at wallyworld. It's the cheapest I've found. I use about 5 lbs a week. So that's $20 a month for just the "bugs," oops, I mean American goldfinch. We are ok with this expense, because come summer, we'll have lots of bright yellow male American goldfinch. Our winter count is more than 20 a day.
I love to ground feed, but the squirrles we're killing us. We switched to the cheapest seed I can find (with the least milo) and add cracked corn and safflower seeds. I like the brand at Target. BOSS is BOSS, but it makes the squirrel popluation spiral out of control.
Sound like me with flowers on my farm.. this only happened to me the last 4 years.
Do you have a feed mill in your area? You may be able to get cracked corn there.. Is that the same as mallot? My sister buys for a surplus place..... Right about the squirrel population and rabbits. She feeds those also on the ground.. Rabbits have the babys there under her shed.. Next to the free food....She is in town and it is polluted with bunnies an squirrel and birds.. However she loves it like you ...... She also has a book strickly on birds. I would love to see your gold finch when it arrives.. Let me know of that post. She talks of finches.. ha ha
barb
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Here are todays pics taken on Sunday,Jan. 14, 2007, at 2:30 PM, E.S.T. The first is the LONG awaited pic of Jane's husband. The other two are of a bird that is a PRIZE to get at ANY feeder anywhere, a sweetly adorable, White-Breasted Nuthatch (Male: the BLACK cap tells you it is a male. Females have a GRAY cap.) The Nuthatch's call is a VERY nasal, "Yank!, Yank!"
JANE'S HUSBAND
WHITE-BREASTED NUTHATCH(MALE)01
WHITE-BREASTED NUTHATCH(MALE)02
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Nice photos ...do you let the camera on all the time and have he feeder close to a window?
Marvelous photos..... Some blue and grey bird hit our window the other morning I think picking a spider off the web. What may that be?
dodge
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Hey All, Hubby would probably you tell you the birds eat better around here than he does
Hey Thorny, that is a first. I have never actually seen a nuthatch in the window. Man, I wish I had been upstairs for that. Nuthatches are delightful! I believe they are the only bird (at least in my yard) that walks head first down trees.
The camera is an internet feed that just lives off the wireless connection in our home. The feeder is an avarium. It's like an inverted bay window box that has a wooden frame that fits in a window. I will get pictures together.
dodge, I don't know who is hitting your window... my first guess will be titmouse.
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Possibly a BLUE-Gray Gnatcher, but it is TOO early for them.
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What's a blue-gray gnatcher? I want one!!!
Hubby is laughing his hiney off. I am dying to see a nuthatch from my bedroom window and have yet to do so. He watched one just after thorny's nuthatch post... I missed it! I keep missing it.
We are really fortunate to have many white breasted nuthatch. Thorny, don't they make a sound that reminds you of an island bird. He can make you think toucan sam is in the yard?
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My REAL name is, "Nat" (short for, Nathaniel"). The FIRST time I EVER saw a Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher, I was wearing blue jeans and a gray T-shirt. Someone said, "Oh, LOOK! A Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher!" I looked down at my blue and gray clothing, and horrified said,"Don't let him catch me!!! "
BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER
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wasn't that bird at all.. But that is a beauty.
this on has strips across the belly.
Some sort of winter fellow......(gal)
ha ha
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Blue-Gray Gnatcatchers are tiny birds, about the size of a Chickadee. They are 100% insect eaters so will NOT come to your feeders, but occur in large flocks in the woods beginning in mid to late April. You can hear them clearly calling, "Tsee, Tsee, Tsee", very similar to Kinglets, to which they are CLOSELY related. They make a TINYnest out of tree lichen lined with spider web in the fork of a tree branch near the end or the branch, often with a small branch just above the nest. This nest is easily overlooked as it is about the size and shape of a golf ball cut in half.
BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER NEST
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glad I found them......I dont usually get all over this gh every nite.
Nice things do happen here.
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Where is Thorny??? I actually have never taken a picture from the window cam!
The video doesn't work here on this darn MAC, so I wouldn't know how to get to the picture moved here anyway.
Would you like some regular pictures of my backyard friends???
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You sound like me...I have a video on my digital camera and dont know how to upload it on here.
The program that came with it doesnt do it ??
d
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Hey Jane, your feeder cam IS ON THE FRITZ. It doesn't show but any thing but a TINY sliver of the picture in the upper right-hand corner of the blue box. I can't get any pictures of that.
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thorny, I am wathcing it fine. I wish it was a little further from the camera. But, it's looking good here.
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I went to the site,loved it all....I have to do more time there......... Now whose was I hunting? thorn or gonetothebirds.
i will go back later.........chores to attend.
d
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It's not from the bird cam, I still don't know how to click with it. But, here is a shot of few regulars dining this morning!
I am trying to learn to hand hold the camera and use the zoom lens. It usually ends up blurry. But, I love this pair of cardinals. It reminds me of Hubby and I. Actually, chances are he is looking at her that way because she is not his chickie and he wishes her to leave!
I hope you all are having a great day! I am not getting too much actually done, but boy is it pleasant!
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Thanks so much I love that .Red cardinal. You doin lots better than me......i cant even get one.
More reddies ......Thanks we are loving this.
barb
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My sister wants to know if anyone knows where to get a wheel that you put sunflower seeds into. And the birds and squirrels hop on and round and round it goes......
She had one in Ohio many years ago.. She is in Penna now/ thanks
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Jane, I like your top pic of the platform feeder with the female Cardinal, male House Finch, and American Goldfinch in Winter Plummage all in one shot! Those are three of the CLASSIC feeder birds together including the two main finch species found in the east.
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Thorny ! I've moved and though I miss my backyard rabbits, crows, squirrels and California towhees horribly, guess what's here in the new place? Yep, towhees, crows, and two rabbits. The sound of the crows is making me unbearably homesick. I set up feeding stations yesterday. One of the rabbits isn't wild-it's a white one that was probably dumped. I hate to see it running wild but the new neighbors say it's been here a long time. I'm trying to catch it so I can give it a happier, safer and warm home. It grooms itself while I talk to it, but runs when I make a move. I'll keep trying. Running loose is not the right life for a domestic rabbit. I'm so glad to be back in the forum !
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I am so glad you are back. I've been recruiting a lot of my birder friends from other forums on here to increase our bird knowledge sources. I hope you didn't move near the ocean.
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