Birdfeeding: Friends of a Feather Flock Together

Monday 6/22/26

Turkeys have dominated the back yard.

There Has been a flock of up to 8 Wild Turkeys eating up all the seed on the ground and peanuts we put out for the Squirrels, Chipmunks and Blue Jays.

Wednesday 6/3/26

It's still pretty quiet around here.

We do have a family of European Starlings who spend all day eating up all the suet I put out. It's cute to see the 2 young ones beg and mom (or dad) comply.

I saw 2 Mute Swan cygnets on the pond. I think there were 3 or 4 originally.

Monday 5/18

We are having some warm weather the past few days.

I heard an Eastern Phoebe and saw a pair of Baltimore Orioles.

We have some Blue Jays, House Sparrows and Wild Turkeys hanging around too.

Despite the cloudy and cool Saturday and rainy and cool Easter Sunday, we had quite a few birds. I think the conditions made the birds pretty hungry.

2 Canada Goose (they have visited almost daily for about 2 weeks now)
1 Wild Turkey
4 Mourning Dove
1 Red-bellied Woodpecker
2 Downy Woodpecker
2 Blue Jay
2 Black-capped Chickadee
1 Tufted Titmouse
1 European Starling
2 American Robin
6 House Sparrow
3 Dark-eyed Junco
1 White-throated Sparrow
5 Common Grackle
4 Northern Cardinal (most I've seen this close together in a while)

I had a female Cardinals on the cam feeder earlier.





The Canada Goose couple continues to visit. Dark eyed Juncos are still around, they should be leaving soon.

Thursday

More signs of spring - all of the blizzard snow has melted and Mallards, Wood Ducks and Canada Goose have returned to the local pond and marsh. The usual Blue Jays, Mourning Doves and House Sparrows are all around.

Tuesday and Wednesday were gorgeous, today we are back to cloudy and cool.


This picture is from Wednesday. Water levels are high with all the melting snow.

Friday

A lot of melting going on the past few days. There was a big flock of mixed blackbirds this morning - Cowbirds, Grackles plus the usual Blue Jays, House Sparrows and the Downy Woodpecker returned.

Monday 2/16/26

A mild day today, I think it got up to around 40. We still have a lot of snow on the ground and a lot of birds. We had a group of 4 Wild Turkeys and we have been 4-8 Deer at a time. The deer are raiding the birds feeders and destroyed some arborvitae I had planted as a living fence.

Blue Jays, House Sparrows, Downy Woodpecker, and House Sparrows were all around today.

Saturday 2/7/26

More snow today and tons of birds. I must have seen 50 to 75 birds around the feeders, huge flocks of House and Song Sparrows, Blue Jays, Mourning Doves and Red winged Blackbirds plus the other usual visitors like Wrens, Starlings, Cardinals and Woodpeckers.

Tuesday 2/3/26

The birds continue to mob the feeders, with very little snow melt still.
Highlights today include a mixed flock of Cowbirds and Red Winged Blackbirds, neither of which has been around until today.

I also saw one Red shouldered hawk calling out to another one in the distance.