Anyone recognize this bird.
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Anyone here use a bird bath heater? (or heated bird bath)
Comments (13)Scully, yep - we are a bit warmer here, but it's the overnight hard freezes that crack birdbath basins. On cold winter days, if I notice an ice skim forming, I'll add warm water too, but if I'm gone for the day the risk of freezeover escalates. The heater works 24/7. We've had a warm fall too, but if the Old Farmers Almanac is right, once it gets here, we're in for it this winter. Btw - Everytime I open this thread I get a mental picture of Woodstock ice skating on the birdbath - brings a smile to my face ....... thanks! Another little aside is that in the heat of summer, I take a pitcher full of ice cubes out to the birdbath - the flapping about definitely increases when I cool it down! :o) Love my birds!...See MoreAnyone recognize this tree?
Comments (9)That's really interesting - I think it's a flowering crabapple grafted onto a Kwanzan cherry. The white flowers look apple-like. Kwanzan cherry trees (I mean the ordinary, ungrafted kind) do not bear fruit. Do the "berries" occur on the upper part of the tree where the white flowers are now? Many ornamental crabapple varieties have been bred for very small fruit, the size of berries....See MoreDoes anyone recognize this?
Comments (4)If it was in my yard I would hit the DELETE button as fast as possible! As a matter of fact it IS, or at least keeps TRYING to get into my yard! A few years back my neighbor planted a couple of them on their back fence. I told her to not do it, but she already had them and thought they were "pretty!" They immediately grew into the back neighbor's unmaintained hard-packed clay yard. Neighbor on side realized pretty quickly what she had "done," and removed everything on HER side of the fence (I was already spraying the ones that were spreading UNDER the fence into my yard!), but now it keeps growing back into her yard from the back neighbor's! Every time it gets close enough to my yard (several times a summer) for me to be able to spray it thru the cracks and over the fence with Weed-B-Gon, I do! I'll be fighting this stuff until the day I die--assuming I'm still living here when that happens!!! And, because it's so close, I now have seedlings coming up in my perennial beds every year too. Obviously if somebody decides to grow it or not is a personal choice, but be forewarned of how extremely invasive it will be once it gets going, and if it's anywhere adjoining a neighbor's yard, consider what you're doing to them too! Down with Virginia Creeper! Skybird...See MoreDoes Anyone Recognize This Bird?
Comments (5)sixeye, Perhaps you encountered some confusion while using that Audubon site. The Black Phoebe is an entirely separate species (listed as a "similar species"), not a variation of Dark-eyed Junco. Audubon.org listed similar species based on similarities in appearance. Your bird is a Black Phoebe. As mentioned above, they are a species of flycatcher and eat only insects. Good eye, though, in noticing your bird looked more like the phoebe on that page....See More- 4 years ago
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