Re: first Townsend

Nice one, Val!

And while you're finding your binos and i.d book, could you find a camera
and get me a photo of those Bush Tits? I've never seen such a bird and am
very curious about them.

Happy New Year and I hope your Christmas plans worked out alright! ;)
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Tammie - Northern Ontario, Canada
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"Valkyrie" <YawShur@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I'm just beginning to get my balcony 'bird friendly' since my move last
> summer. It only took about 20 minutes after hanging the hummer feeder for
> the first Anna's to show up, I now have 8 that I have been able to see all
> at one time. I'm going through about 3 oz of juice a day. The Bush Tits
> are swarming the suet feeder, that took about 3 days for them to find it
> after hanging this up. A few days later the BC chickadees and nuthatches
> arrived. Then the SUBBs (I have got to find where my binocs and books have
> gone) showed up. This all within about a week or ten days of the first
> feeder being put out. I have a fountain in my birdbath so I'm sure this
> helped bring them in.
>
> Today I was watching the Anna's trying to use their swinging feeder in the
> high winds and the bush tits covered the suet feeder like a swarm of bees
> when I see a flash of YELLOW, really egg yolk bright yellow! I'd never
> seen this bird before. Took me awhile to figure out what it was since I
> have yet to find my bird ID books either. It was in with 5 chickadees
> pecking around the balcony at dropped seed and suet crumbs. I finally IDed
> it as a Townsend's Warbler. Looks just like the picture on Cornell Lab
> bird site. Pretty exciting for me today, now I have a new bird for my
> list......when I find it.
>
> Val
> Lat. 47:42:18N
> Lon. 122:21:19W
> Alt. 5ft 2in (when fully vertical)
>


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