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Comments (55)I was living in town when Mr. Walski was giving talks about the wild turkey project. Although the article describes the CT River valley, I think there were other release sites that weren't mentioned. I thought our town was one of them because of the corn, apples and water. We don't have apple orchards any more but although we are down to one dairy farm, a neighbor has quite a few beef cows (and lots of manure). We used to enjoy seeing the turkeys roost in pines along a corn field. As day was ending, they would gather and one by one fly up into the trees. The cattle farmer made improvements to the field since years of not keeping up with things let trees encroach on the field. About 100 feet of pines were cut back. There are plenty more pines but too much heavy equipment activity. The heavy equipment is now parked a distance away and finally we saw three male turkeys in our yard and then exploring the corn field. Last winter we counted as many as 60 coming down from the pines to see what they could get in our yard before making the tour to other places. I don't recalled seeing blue birds in winter before but this year we probably have 8. I counted 4 females and one male picking up suet scraps and thistle seed. We do not have nesting boxes up so I have no idea where they nest but it is probably somewhere behind our house. Thanks for posting the wonderful pictures. A friend has been getting some good shots at the Nashua airport and posting them on facebook....See MoreBirds and other mobile features in the garden 2015 #5
Comments (92)Baby Raccoon calls...I had this as a stand alone post but I think it belongs here. I have been spending lots of time out in my gardens of late and have been hearing one of my all time favorite sounds of spring. Next to the spring peepers, this sound my be my favorite. It is a sweet trill and it comes from the trees in the mid afternoons during the spring. At first I thought it may be the mating call of a Red bellied woodpecker but I now believe it to be the sound of a baby raccoon calling it's mom. I have a link to a Youtube video I found yesterday, below. The first sound you hear is the call I have been hearing. Have any of you heard this sweet sound and if so, do you think this is a match? I would be interested in hearing your thoughts. Just one more fun and educational aspect to gardening. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cQAACCyHUc&list=PLD-jnvzNKmD2VvnuHcpnqN4M0smrER1sZ&index=2...See MoreBirds and other mobile features in the garden 2015 #8
Comments (72)I've not posted on this thread for quite a while, but we've had lots of visitors, many visible through the kitchen window and within easy shot of the camera. This morning there were 4 deer, two does and two youths, wandering across the back field as I poured my coffee. They looked like they were wading through some kind of weird pink foam since the fluffy red-purple grass seedheads (I think purple love-grass, Eragrostis spectabilis) were covered with dew. They passed within about 30 feet of the veggie garden and showed no interest in it at all. We have had a wren visiting regularly - I saw it perched on the compost fence today, but these photo was from early in the week on my half-dead Kousa dogwood outside the window. After preening fairly vigorously for a bit, s/he still looked amazingly ruffled. The same morning a pair of goldfinches were visiting to eat seeds on plants I haven't cut back or deadheaded since I've been gone much of the month, including Scabiosa Butterfly Blue and Centaurea dealbata. This morning the female hummer who views the back garden as her territory was doing her best to chase everyone away: an immature cardinal (an unusual visitor here), some of the flycatchers, and a couple of song sparrows. Here she is visiting the monkshood between chasing her neighbors away. I was a bit surprised since these are so toxic to us, but they don't seem to bother her. The flowers are so large compared to her tiny size that she can fit her entire head in....See MoreBirds and other mobile features in the garden 2015 #9
Comments (74)With the temps we have had, I knew there had to be an explanation! No need for the heated birdbath yet. No juncos so far, and haven't seen a flicker for months, no cardinals for a while either. Haven't put up any feeders yet, but they will go up later this month. Lots of resident bluebirds are still around, as well as nuthatches, chickadees, downys, some blue jays. Goldfinches have been scarce ever since they pretty much stripped the sunflowers. That will change as soon as the thistle feeder goes up. Hoping the abundant crabapples will bring in the waxwings like they did year before last...nothing last year. And there is an upside to the leaves falling...better visibility. Too bad there will be so little daylight. Trade-offs! Susan...See MoreRelated Professionals
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