Tell me your nature observations! (turkey, cold, Kansas, Mississippi)
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This Thread is right up my alley! I love this kind of stuff!!! Thanx!
There's been what I believe to be a juvenile Red-tailed Hawk scouting my neighborhood this week. I keep a ton of bird feeders, so he's been in my next-door neighbor's dead tree, watching...
Speaking of my ton of bird feeders, living near the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, I've had almost 50 species of birds at my feeders, and that's not really all that many considering the area's potential. Another note: I have to lock them up at night or I get "bandits" on my deck. They're quite brazen around here. This morning a Blue Jay was looking in the house and yelling at me because I hadn't gotten the feeders out yet!
One night I had a young Possum on my deck, but the dog gave him a terrible fright, even from inside the house, and he never came back.
I have a large plastic dish in my yard that I fill with water and water plants. Every year I get a Green Frog.
Here's a few photos. The Hawk is on a telephone pole, guarding his catch: a baby squirrel. In the pond, to the right there's a stick. The frog is on the rim of the dish next to the stick. If you look closely at the photo of the feeders, you'll see a Gray Catbird on the suet cake on the left, a Downy Woodpecker on the one in the middle, and a female Red-bellied Woodpecker on the cake on the right. Truly a special moment!
Today the male Rose-breasted Grosbeak has made an appearance, the male Brown-headed Cowbirds are displaying, Blue Jays are hitting the Woodpecker cake, and the Red-bellied Woodpecker who has adopted my gutters as his territorial hammering drum woke me up again this morning!
Only one Hummingbird sighting since I put the feeders out, and planted Salvia to attract them. Back in late May!!!
Male RB grosbeak is one of my favorites-he is v-e-r-y handsome! LOL, no sleep for you w/RB woodpecker
How many hummers do you usually have in your area?
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Originally Posted by PatsCats
Today the male Rose-breasted Grosbeak has made an appearance, the male Brown-headed Cowbirds are displaying, Blue Jays are hitting the Woodpecker cake, and the Red-bellied Woodpecker who has adopted my gutters as his territorial hammering drum woke me up again this morning!
Only one Hummingbird sighting since I put the feeders out, and planted Salvia to attract them. Back in late May!!!
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They're quite brazen around here. This morning a Blue Jay was looking in the house and yelling at me because I hadn't gotten the feeders out yet! 
