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How many types of birds come to your yard.

15 years ago

My Granddaughter was here last week and she ask me how many birds come to our yard, so I started listing and she started to write them down.

When the list was complete I was shocked.

We had listed 60.

How many do you have?

Here is a picture of my newest visitors.

Baby Chick-a-dee's

and Baby Blue Birds

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Comments (5)

donald lucius
15 years ago
i have lived here at this place for the last four years and got my first digital camera just because of the birds.
since i moved in i have either got photos or verified thru bird books 57 different kinds of birds. and there are about a dozen that i have not verified.
deanie1
15 years ago
I've got about 40 different types. But I bet I'm missing some. It's unbelievable when you think about it -- especially how clueless you were before you got into birds.

Short story about cluelessness: I saw the librarian at the school I work at show a group of 20 kids a pretty picture of a summer tanager -- she told them it was a cardinal. I just had to speak up!
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Anna's Hummingbird
American Crow
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California Quail
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Black+white Warbler
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lazypup
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In less than one year I managed to photo document 117 species in our yard and another 21 species at a small lake nearby. I saw a few more but I only officially counted the ones that I had photographed and had the identity confirmed by an ornithologist at the county extension service.
Connie Kru
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Well I best get busy if I am going to get to the 400.
I have a pond, lots of trees, an open field across from my house and a field that has been planted by Pheasants Forever (I have not seen one in about 15 years) and we feed.
Not sure what else I can do to make more come to my yard, but I know that there are lots of birds at the top of the trees that I don't know what they are---best get out the binoculars and start watching more.

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