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May 3rd, 2007 at 08:17 AM
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Purl One
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I was on the deck taking pictures of some garden whimsey, when this friendly black capped chickadee allowed me to take his picture. They are some of the tamest wild birds I know - I'm hoping to get them to eat out of my hand, eventually... With sunflower seed in mouth:
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TweetyBird
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I love my dee-dee's! Great pictures Lynne!
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The Bird Man
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The Bird Man
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Your feeding Black Oil Sunflower seed......GOOD FOR YOU! And I LOVE your basket feeder on the bottom. I don't have one of those. We don't have the Black-Capped in this part of Tennessee, onlt the Carolina Chickadee. I have Titmouses coming to my feeders this morning.
Kingdoms RAGE and go to war...but the PEasants plant potatoes.. EARTH FIRST! (we'll strip-mine the OTHER planets later.)
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Purl One
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Thorny - I have such an assortment of birds eating these sunflower seeds - it's the only kind I buy anymore! I get chickadees, titmouses, juncos, nuthatches, bluejays, cardinals, mourning doves, downy, hairy and red bellied woodpeckers, northern flickers, goldfinches... All eat these sunflower seeds! I'm surprised about the goldfinches - I thought they preferred thistle? I saw a different bird eating the dropped seeds on the ground below yesterday - gotta get out my Sibley's and look it up!
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The Bird Man
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Black Oil Sunflower seeds are the SECOND favorite seed of Goldfinches.
Kingdoms RAGE and go to war...but the PEasants plant potatoes.. EARTH FIRST! (we'll strip-mine the OTHER planets later.)
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I keep one thistle feeder just for the goldfinches and today all 6 spots were occupied.
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The Bird Man
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Here is a picture I took this week of a male House Finch and a male American Goldfinch having a, "Boys' Day Out" at two of my Black Oil Sunflower seed feeders in my yard. SEE! they DO like something besides Thistle seed. BOYS' DAY OUT
Kingdoms RAGE and go to war...but the PEasants plant potatoes.. EARTH FIRST! (we'll strip-mine the OTHER planets later.)
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What would a bird be that is small and tiny and the prettest yellow I have seen and they are alot of them togther it was so pretty.
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Wild canaries??? I get a bunch like you described at my house.
Sherri
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TweetyBird
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Wild canaries is a nickname for the American Goldfinch. See Thornys picture? The bird on the right is a male American Goldfinch. Is that what you saw BettyBoop?
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