Three messages about my feeder birds is probably to much for one day, but I added some more goodies to the list this afternoon. The best by far was 3 Red Crossbills. I now believe this species has been around for some time, as I think I had heard call notes several times in the last month. Today I had binos and got a view of one male and two females as they flew over. A first for the yard. Brown Creeper, Red-tailed Hawk and American Goldfinch were also new for the day. Spencer On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 12:15 PM, spencer hardy <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > As this message was sending, a male Red-winged Blackbird dropped in. > Surprisingly it is not the first this winter. > > On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 12:10 PM, spencer hardy > <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> With a mostly free weekend, I had the opportunity to spend a couple >> hours "working" in front of the feeder window. Not an atypical day at >> the feeders, but after a while, I took a stroll down the road. It >> immediately became evident that there was lots of activity in the >> woods. Lots of the birds I was seeing at the feeder would make very >> brief appearances, and some, like the Red-bellied never came in. It >> has definitely been a weird winter. >> >> In the first two months of 2011 I had 13 species on 24 checklists, so >> far this year I have 22 species on 12 checklist for the property. >> >> >> home, Windsor, US-VT >> Feb 11, 2012 10:15 AM - 12:15 PM >> Protocol: Area >> 4.0 ac >> 16 species >> >> Mourning Dove 20 >> Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Present all winter >> Downy Woodpecker 1 >> Hairy Woodpecker 3 >> Blue Jay 20 >> Common Raven 1 >> Black-capped Chickadee 10 >> Tufted Titmouse 2 >> White-breasted Nuthatch 1 >> European Starling 8 >> White-throated Sparrow 1 >> Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) 20 >> Northern Cardinal 1 Female, present on and off all winter >> Purple Finch 1 >> Pine Siskin 4 >> House Sparrow 1 First for the area in years >> >> This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org/vt) >> >> >> -- >> Good Birding, >> Spencer > > > > -- > Good Birding, > Spencer -- Good Birding, Spencer