It started on Friday – one of my two favorite bird counts of the winter – the annual Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) and it will last through Presidents Day on Monday. My other favorite bird count is the Howe Christmas Bird Count that is usually held between Christmas and New Years Day, but this […]
With the recent cold and a little snow, my suet feeders became the dinner plates for Downy and Hairy woodpeckers along with the Red-shafted Northern flickers. The peanut-flavored suet cakes got hammered first followed by the “high protein” cakes. Soon I had three Downys, two Hairys and usually four flickers in the back yard. The […]