Redpolls peck seed from snow.
I catch myself thinking
of raspberries.
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| Redpoll visitor from last year (window too splattered with snow to get a photograph today!) |
Thursday, December 27, 2012
December 27: Riders on the storm
A nor'easter sent snow and freezing rain gusting around my office today. I live too close to work for the weather to be an excuse not to show up, and we didn't lose power, so I put in a full day there. I was, however, pleasantly distracted for much of that time by the birds flocking my tiny window feeders. The regulars--chickadees and titmice--showed up, of course, and what I think is a solitary White-breasted Nuthatch. And then some finches I hadn't seen in a while made an unexpected appearance: goldfinches, their yellow throats looking positively sunny against the snow, Pine Siskins, and at least three redpolls--a boreal visitor I've only had at my feeders a couple times before. The finches chattered away as they chowed down; I could hear them through the window despite the roar of the wind.
Redpolls peck seed from snow.
I catch myself thinking
of raspberries.
Redpolls peck seed from snow.
I catch myself thinking
of raspberries.
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Nice post! Down here near Boston the Slate Colored Junco's always show up at my feeder in the hours before a storm. How do they know? So we should see them tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteThank you!
ReplyDeleteI wonder if birds sense air pressure changes, if that triggers feeder mobbing. I've definitely noticed that here, when bad weather is on the way.