Birds seen in a three-minute time span...
I'm sitting on the front deck. I angled my gliding chair so I can see the Purple Martins and the feeders in the white spruce tree.
In a three minute span I saw...
- A male Baltimore oriole
- A male Orchard oriole
- Three Hummingbirds
- At least six fledgling Downy woodpeckers
- Three or four fledgling Hairy woodpeckers
- Two adult Hairy woodpeckers
- House and Purple Finches eating the orioles' grape jelly
- More House and Purple finches slurping down the oriole nectar from the large-ported feeder
- Flocks of hysterically cute young chipping sparrows
- Female and fledgling robins
- Young Tree Swallow nestlings peeping out of their box
- Nearly all of the 24+ Purple Martins
- A pair of Red Wing blackbirds
On a table next to my chair is a stack of rocks. I can't hit the side of a barn, but anytime a grackle or young grey squirrel gets on the feeders, I chuck a rock toward them.
Now I have to go pick up all the pecan-size rocks and start all over again. I think I'll get a sling shot and use dried beans for "bullets."