Seattle bird feeders



I put out black oil sunflower, niger thistle, and a suet feeder about a week ago. The chickadees found the sunflower almost immediately, and explored every feeder and feeder hanger in the yard thoroughly. They were the first to use the suet, and are the most regular. In a couple of days the house finches found the sunflower too, but they have yet to explore the thistle. The sparrows (european house sparrows only so far) came with the finches. The flickers have been interested in the sunflower, but have a hard time with the feeder. One of them figured out the upside down suet feeder, but the one who seems to think that this yard is his territory has not yet managed to figure out upside-down feeding, even after watching the other flickers doing it. Today we got lesser goldfinches at the thistle feeder and a female downy woodpecker at the suet. The juncos also arrived today, but are limiting their presence to the ground below the sunflower feeder.
Unfortunately for the birds, the feeder has also attracted a very friendly, fluffy, grey kitty. I’d love for Nina to get to see the kitty, but I sent Tikka out to chase it away for the birds’ sake.
Bird list for this house:
Robin
Steller’s Jay
Northern Flicker
Chickadee
Lesser Goldfinch
House Finch
European House Sparrow
Downy Woodpecker
Dark eyed Junco
Crow
Anna’s Hummingbird
Oregon (Dark eyed) Junco
Spotted Towhee
two types of Wren, one very small (verdin sized) and grey, the other slightly larger and dark brown all over except for throat patch and eyebrows.

Posted: Wed - October 10, 2007 at 10:25 AM          

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