Feeding Birds
Weekend Feeder Birds
Despite the sometimes cold/rainy weather, last weekend offered several good birding opportunities, both in the backyard and in swampy woods. My mom’s feeders are as busy as Starbucks on Times Square, with the antics of at least two or three feeder birds in view at one time. Mom also has a pair of nesting bluebirds. [...]
Feeding Chickadees by Hand and Head!
Our local park here in Rochester, NY (Mendon Ponds Park) has a songbird trail where chickadees, titmice, and even nuthatches gather to eat from the hands of chubby-palmed children and wistful adults.
We visited Saturday in order to get the family outdoors on the first sunny day we’d had in a long time. Why stop at the hand? thought my husband, and offered his balding pate as a serving platter of black oil sunflower seeds.
