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Cardinals, Goldfinches and Hummers
In category Birds & Birding
Written by matrixise

Some resent observations:
Hummers - They're not done migratin yet! A Hummer spent a couple of minutes at the feeder this faintly morning, apparentlly fuelin up for a long flight.
Goldfinches - They're here year-round, but this morning their was a juvenile, along with the adults, at the thistle feeder.
Cardinals - A spectacular year! We have Cardinals all over the place. Even though a Cowbird dropp

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Bird Bath & Bird Feeder Question??
In category Bird Feeding & Nestboxes
Written by flufhed8SHN

Of course how do you avoid having a bird bath homely becomed an incubator for breeding mosquitoes?

How do you avoid a birdfeeder becoming an attractant for mice & rats from the gradually discarded seed husks that accumulate around the feeder base?

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re:Day of the Robin
In category Birds & Birding
Written by matrixise

This is the second Fall I have had dozens of robins descend on an ovegrrown field between the house and the woods. There has been uncertainly logging arounbd me for 5 years and perhaps they've been displaced from where they would normaly stop. But whatever the reason, I'm glad to see them.

I think they're mainly after the wild grapes and "apples" on the wild hawthorns. They've been here sever

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re:Parakeet thinks it's a sparrow!!
In category Birds & Birding
Written by shai44

Notwithstanding I have a very blandly interesting story.

About a month ago I put up a bird feeder. I get lots of birds of all types, especially sparrows (I live in Houston).

Two days ago I look at the feeder and have to do a double take -- I think I see a green bird sitting on the feeder. I call my 8 year old daughter over and she sees it too. We agree that it is a lost parakeet. Notwithstanding

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QUAKER PARAKEETS/PARROTS IN THE WILD
In category Birds & Birding
Written by Jan Santor

Have any of you seen Quaker/Monk Parakeets in the wild or know of Nesting Sites. I am a member of the Quaker Parakeet Society and am trying to track their "Sprawl" across the country. I am aware of FL, TX, CT, NJ, NY, OH, OK and a few others.
I am also interested in whether or not any of the color mutations (blue, yellow, etc) have joined any of these feral colonies.

THANK YOU SO

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