Faunascrolling--what's visiting where you are?

[Steve Miller]

A small toad has taken residence in the back yard and is driving the dog insane. He’s too quick to get a picture of.

Birds are mostly Robins and red-wing blackbirds -very nice. Unfortunately they appear to be feeding at someone’s bird feeder and have distributed Amaranth all over the property. Tough stuff - gonna take a while to get rid of it.

[rustyfingers]

I thought houndiepaws (dog #2) was going to go right through the closed kitchen window when our resident garden bunny taunted her yesterday.

[Mik]

@Steve-Miller said in Faunascrolling--what's visiting where you are?:

A small toad has taken residence in the back yard and is driving the dog insane. He’s too quick to get a picture of.

Birds are mostly Robins and red-wing blackbirds -very nice. Unfortunately they appear to be feeding at someone’s bird feeder and have distributed Amaranth all over the property. Tough stuff - gonna take a while to get rid of it.

You don't have any Grosbeaks?

[rustyfingers]

Cool bird. I've heard them but only seen one at a distance.

Saw my first Monarch of the year today. No picture.

[Mik]

They stop here while migrating up to around where Steve lives. Wonderful birds. We get some traveling Orioles too.

[wtg]

@Mik said in Faunascrolling--what's visiting where you are?:

We get some traveling Orioles too.

[rustyfingers]

We get the avian kind. Again, I hear them all the time but never see them. (Sense a pattern?) We thought we were putting oranges out for them, but those seem to be for the squirrels instead.

[Bernard]

I saw a Baltimore Oriole here twice, four years ago. It was the same year the Indigo Buntings showed up at the feeder. It was right after some large swath of trees were cut down along the brook across the street. I suspect they were displaced, hence why I saw them.
Not a very good picture:

[Bernard]

@Mik Rose Breasted Grosbeaks make regular appearances at my feeders. As do Evening Grosbeaks. Very pretty song.

[rustyfingers]

We just added a nijer feeder and the bird cam captured RATS last night. We will be taking down the feeders.

[wtg]

I ordered a Birdfy camera. No feeder with it. I have lots of bird baths and I can position the camera near one of those. Also easy to move around. I think the field of view on the camera-only is narrower than the feeder models.

https://www.birdfy.com/products/birdfy-cam

Discount code LAGO15 gets you another 10% off; don't know if they are really having a mid-year sale or if that's marketing. I think the discount LAGO15 code increases the discount to 15% if you go over some amount.

@rustyfingers Do you have a solar panel on your feeder, or do you just take it down and charge it as needed?

[rustyfingers]

Yes we have a solar panel. The squirrels chewed through the cord on the first one and the company replaced it for free.

[wtg]

I saw the chew resistant version of the cable on their site. None of the panels was on sale so I thought I'd see how much hassle keeping the battery charged is and then buy later if necessary.

[Daniel.]

@Steve-Miller

My first thought was do bugs use computation until I realized you probably meant do they count toward the topic. Duh!

Birds definitely count objects and arrange them by color.

Birds have so much to recommend them. I don't know why I never developed any particular affinity for them.

I believe mosquitos count as bugs and should be living in a circle of hell instead of the more usual places

I believe the park owner has decided another way to line his pockets is to cut down or eliminate bug spray. The mowing machines used to spray pesticide and no longer do it.

He's also saving money by not having the maintenance crews edge and trim.

There's nothing glorious about it but I weeded the rock beds today so the place can look its best after they install the new roof on Friday.