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I'm posting for the first time since my hard drive was replaced. Let's see if it works!
First of the season today:
Pine siskins (three, at thistle sock)
Northern mockingbird (suet feeder/suet mixed with dried berries)
I've had more tufted titmice this year than ever before. The first few years I lived here, I had NONE. Yesterday, I had three at one time.
And, I'm seeing all the regulars:
no. cardinal
Ca. chickadees
W-B nuthatch
downy and red-bellied woodpeckers
lots of house finches and somewhat fewer Am. goldfinches
many house sparrows
very few dark-eyed juncos
Missing - my Carolina wrens. They nested in the neighborhood last summer, and have always attended my suet feeders in the fall. I haven't seen or heard them for over a month.
I can always tell when Top Gun is in the neighborhood (my name for the female Cooper's hawk).
And what's with the mourning doves. They seem to be increasing exponentially! I had almost forty in my yard at one time yesterday.
Now I'd love to have a purple finch, but I'm not expecting one. It would be a new yard bird.
Happy window birding,
Margaret Bowman
Newark, OH
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