Faunascrolling--what's visiting where you are?

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Avian visitors showing up with the warming temps.

American robin, bluejay, cardinal, white-breasted nuthatch, juncos, a pair of mourning doves (yay!), and something I've never seen before, a brown creeper.

Didn't have my bird cam set up so sadly no pics or video.

[AndyD]

A brown creeper!
I had to search, anticipating some toilet humour, instead got lots of running shoes

Lovely forest birds, ours is called a treecreeper and looks identical to me. Usually shy, always seems to favour the hidden side of a tree.

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

I had to search, anticipating some toilet humour

The creeper was on the tree the same time a nuthatch was, so at first I thought I was seeing two nuthatches; they have similar tree-climbing movements. Nuthatches move down a tree head first, though, and the one bird was only going upwards and then flying off and coming back. I finally got out my binoculars and got a better look at both of them and realized one was a newbie to my yard. Apparently my area is part of its winter habitat.

Oh, and we have had a ton of woodpeckers, too. Northern flicker and a couple of red-bellied woodpeckers.

I used to feed the birds during but stopped many years ago. On a whim I picked up a feeder at Costco a couple of weeks ago. It was on a closeout at my warehouse for $25.

https://www.costco.com/p/-/solar-smart-bird-feeder/4000314026

Biggest problem for me is feeder placement. There aren't many places a) where I can get a wifi signal in the yard and b) where the squirrels can't get to the feeder. Lots of trees and shrubs and those rodents are so clever when it comes to figuring out ways to jump up, down, or sideways to get to the seed.

If you haven't seen them, check out Mark Rober's series on squirrels. Here's the first one:

Link to video

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American eagle in my friend's yard, just a few blocks away. Not a super great video, bird can be seen a bit better if you're full screen on a laptop or monitor.

Link to video

[AndyD]

An eagle in the garden. So jealous!

[RealPlayer]

Just realized I should have posted this here. Yesterday was an unexpectedly warm day. This guy was out, and another just like him.

[Piano*Dad]

Likewise, warm day produces insects. This fella was on the wall at PetSmart! A conehead katydid.

[RealPlayer]

@Piano-Dad Interesting. I thought all katydids were green.

[Daniel]

I love higher order insects.

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We have a pair of mourning doves who seem to have taken up residence in our backyard! I keep seeing them in the bird bath. If I have a chance I'll upload the video from my bird bath camera....

The robins are back. They've actually been here for a few weeks. They looked totally confused by the snow we had mid-March. Woodpeckers galore, too. Their hammering mating calls are a welcome sound when I'm out working in the yard.

[Daniel]

We keep our back door open at night [yeah, totally not safe in the 17th largest Metro (trivia: was 25th when I graduated from HD)-- in fact, I wouldn't do it, but RM opens it every time I lock it; I couldn't fall asleep for a minute and he'd have it open, so I gave up.]

So, I do get a cross breeze (having a single window in my bedroom, and better air quality.

Anyway, although they'll be a lot more later, now for some reason, I always have 1 mosquito buzzing around me and 1 small moth flapping its wings somewhere in my room at night.

It's mildly annoying. I'll have multiple mosquito bites daily soon enough. This will be more than annoying but not the end of the world.

[AdagioM]

We have urban coyotes in our neighborhood. This one was in our back yard a couple weeks ago. It’s on its way out the side gate.