Well, you could call it a list, couldn't you??
Yesterday and today, doing this week's Project Feeder Watch count in my backyard, I saw:
60+ evening grosbeaks (sorry Larry!)
4 pine grosbeaks
1 black capped chickadee (wonder where the others are?)
3 bluejays (had a high count of 5 this week but not on count day)
1 hairy woodpecker
4 American goldfinches
1 raven
And oddly today, 1 lonely grackle that's very jumpy.
I'm hoping the redpolls will be arriving within the month. Hopefully, there'll be a few hoaries this winter.
How's everyone else doing with their counts?
I'm doing mine on Monday and Tuesday each week. Pretty good numbers this week...
California Quail - 32
Mourning Dove - 1
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Black-billed Magpie - 2
Black-capped Chickadee - 5
Mountain Chickadee - 5
Red-breasted Nuthatch - 5
White-breasted Nuthatch - 1
Pygmy Nuthatch - 30
Dark-eyed Junco - 15
House Finch - 10 (one seems to be partly leucistic or something; it is startlingly light-colored!)
Pine Siskin - 22 (not as many as last week)
Can't legally count the Pine Grosbeak that was feeding on the ground about forty feet beyond the feeders. It's the closest they've been, though, so I'm really hoping that they will venture to the feeders soon!
I have established an interesting way of getting fairly accurate counts of our nuthatches and chickadees. I climb about twenty feet up in one of the pines next to the feeders where most of them crack their seeds. It's really fun having forty little birds swarming around! Sooooooo hard to get accurate counts of the Pygmies, though.
Michael
Michael,
I would count the pines, if I were you. If they are in your yard, chances are they are feeding on scraps blown around from the feeders. I count anything that lands in my yard for that exact reason!
30 pygmy nutties!! I've never seen ONE, let alone 30.... that must be truly amazing!