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Titmice Coming To My Back Door

By BirdDude on Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 | 2 Comments

As I wrote previously about my First Real Success In Hand Feeding Birds, I had taken my feeders down during the day and was experimenting with getting some birds to come to me just before I put them up again in the afternoon. I mentioned that, unlike my last attempt, the titmice were braving it [...]

Bluebirds vs Chickadees – It’s A Draw

By BirdDude on Saturday, May 16th, 2009 | 3 Comments

Nobody Takes The Nestbox Earlier this week, I was looking out my office window at my backyard when I saw something suspicious. A mottled gray looking bird perched atop my closest bluebird box. Once mom showed up, it didn’t take me long to figure out that my resident bluebird pair had decided to nest elsewhere. [...]

Tell Me Your House Wren Stories

By BirdDude on Saturday, May 9th, 2009 | 9 Comments

It Started With A Song I noticed this morning that there was a new but vaguely familiar bird singing in my backyard. I get passers-by all the time so I didn’t take any notice of it at first. Later, I noticed the bird was still singing repeatedly and loudly. He had been at it for [...]

The Bluebirds Make A Last Minute Charge

By BirdDude on Monday, April 13th, 2009 | 2 Comments

If You Snooze You Lose OK. Things are heating up in the backyard. Less than a month after reporting the chickadees had staked their claim , the bluebird pair shows up and won’t hear any of that noise. Late last week, I started hearing bluebirds chattering in my back yard. Since I almost never hear [...]

And The Winners Are … Chickadees

By BirdDude on Thursday, March 26th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Bluebirds As Year Long Landlords For the past few years, I’ve had my bluebird pair that comes back from time to time to make sure the nesting box is in good repair and hasn’t been destroyed by squatters. They spend up to thirty minutes about once a week looking at and in the box to [...]