Yesterday morning, I set about to re-engineer the support for the main bird feeder in hopes of keeping the chipmunks at bay.
After lunch, I sat down with my camera to watch the birds and to see the results of my efforts regarding the chipmunks. I am happy to report great success… only one chipmunk on the feeder in a day and a half and none since I made a minor adjustment early this morning.
As for the birds, the most common birds at the seed these days are finches. Gold finches are the most common but we’ve had good numbers of purple finches as well. Downy woodpeckers are the most common suet eaters present but an occasional nuthatch and a red-bellied woodpecker also appear.
One oddity that has appeared at the feeders over the past few days is a male red-winged blackbird. It just seems to perch and watch for a while before flying off. I have never seen it take either seed or suet.
The turkey is also an oddity in that I was actually able to get a good photograph. Turkeys are very common in our neck of the woods. (I am usually awakened at about 5:30 these mornings by their calls.) However, they are usually very skittish and thus difficult to photograph.
This male appeared by the greenhouse about six last evening and stuck around long enough for me to get a few nice photographs.
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