Birds around ye olde HQ today in the snow

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Monday, February 9. 2015

Birds around ye olde HQ today in the snow

Mostly old friends:

Tree Sparrow
Cardinal
Slate-Colored Junco
Mockingbird
Song Sparrow
Blue Jay
Downy Woodpecker
damn English Sparrows
White Throated Sparrow
Great Horned Owl (heard early)
Mourning Doves
Chipping Sparrow
Chickadee
Carolina Wren

and a new friend, a Brown Thrasher, one of my favorite birds. He's a little early to be here, but using his strong beak to punch holes in the snow to find birdseed.

Posted by Bird Dog in Natural History and Conservation, Our Essays at 18:10 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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Brown Thrasher - my favorite bird. State bird of Georgia. I didn't know they went as far north as that.

#1 oolioo on 2015-02-09 20:09 (Reply)

The Brown Thrasher is one of my favorite birds. Here in Oklahoma it's a summer time bird, which by coincidence, is my favorite month.

#2 Jack Walter on 2015-02-09 20:39 (Reply)

Here in Palm Beach County a Great Horned Owl male has been hooting up a storm for the past month. He loves our back yard, sitting in the very top of an 80 foot Slash Pine. Just this week we have a female here too. She is gigantic, but instead of a hoot, her vocalization is more of a gasp or bleat. I am fascinated by the reaction of our chickens, who ignore the owls, but dive under the bougainvillea in terror at the sound of an occasional Red tail.
Other notable sightings this week - Wood Stork, Roseate Spoonbill, Everglades Kite.

#3 dr kill on 2015-02-09 22:01 (Reply)

We get a lot of the same birds in northeast GA, with the addition of the occasional Towhee, Titmouse, Flicker, Purple Finches (especially in Jan.), Red-Tailed Hawk, and of course, buzzards & owls.
In the last 20 years there's definitely been an increase of crows. They're very aggressive toward the hawks.

Been years since I've seen/heard a Pileated Woodpecker. Used to be pretty common around here.

#4 LS (Link) on 2015-02-09 23:23 (Reply)

My bird count fell to zero after the feeders came down. On the other hand, I save a fortune in seed.

There was a cardinal singing the other day, I noticed. He's starting early.

#5 rhhardin (Link) on 2015-02-10 07:04 (Reply)

In Southwest Ohio, the Brown Thrasher just passes through, but not usually until March. They are fun to watch with all their scraping about ... same with the Rufous Sided Towhee, who shows up about the same time. As for the Great Horned Owl, we'll gladly ship you the pair nesting behind our property. They NEVER shut up!

#6 Nat Brooks (Link) on 2015-02-10 07:59 (Reply)

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Birds around ye olde HQ today in the snow