March Questions

[galadhir]

5. How many local birds can you name?

• Robin
• Blue tit
• Great tit
• Crows
• Rooks
• Jackdaws
• Magpies
• Pigeon
• Wood dove
• Collared dove
• Blackbird
• Starling
• Wren
• Red kite (a kind of hawk)
• Buzzard

A tiny little wren lives in our garden and scurries around our fences. He is my favourite. But the family of blackbirds, and the robin who comes down to greet me when I go out are also my favourites. The rest of them are passing through, but the wren, robin and blackbirds live here with me.

Comments

[lucy_roman]

How lovely. I sometimes see a wren in my garden but mostly it's sparrows. They make a racket but they're quite cute little birds.

[katuah]

You probably see me rambling regularly about the birds of my area.

It's been a busy month at the feeder just outside the window near my desk. I've seen goldfinches, house finches, yellow-rumped warblers, black-capped chickadees, Carolina wrens, tufted titmice, eastern bluebirds, cardinals, the sparrow with the striped head (possibly a yeallow-throated? unsure of the correct designation), a white-breasted nuthatch, a brown-headed nuthatch, juncos (although I think they left last week, probably heading more northerly), the one attitudinal mockingbird, and a pair of mourning doves. Last month a red-bellied woodpecker came by a few times.

In the general area, I regularly see blue jays, rufous-sided towhees, brown thrashers, robins, other random sparrows, crows, black and turkey vultures, Canada geese, great blue herons, and several different hawks, mainly Cooper's and red-shouldered.

There's an excellent birdwatching area just a few miles away, where I have seen indigo buntings, scarlet tanagers, flocks of cedar waxwings, a prothonotary warbler, a great crested flycatcher, several vireos, and a very industrious mama hummingbird who raised two babies in a nest barely bigger than a thimble.

In the mountains around my mom's house, a few of the regular feeder birds from NC aren't as common, while others are moreso. I regularly see chimney swifts in the yard, while a country drive offers red-winged blackbirds, kingfisher, mallards, bald eagles, kestrel, and even a few pileated woodpecker.

I like birds :-)