Monday, March 7, 2011

Birds in our backyard

Last week, I took a trip to Lowe's with my friend and her sweet baby...and we spent a good while on what I like to call "the bird aisle."  Bird feeders, bird seed, bird houses...anything bird, they have it.

I've been buying the cheap $2.50 "bird bells" for a while now, and I decided that it was time to upgrade to a proper bird feeder.  That, and the cat-sized squirrels in our back yard keep making off with the bird bells, and dammit, I'm not paying to feed squirrels!


Since I am trying to attract as many cardinals to our yard as possible, I decided a cedar birdfeeder would be the best bet, so I bought one similar to that pictured below:
A random, but nice older man suggested that I try safflower seeds, as squirrels don't have an affinity for them AND cardinals and other sweet little birds love them. SCORE.
Since putting up the feeder, our backyard has become Bird Paradise.  Seriously!  I have seen more unfamiliar birds in the past 4 days than in the 6+ months we've been here.  Since my orinthology skills are a liiiittle rusty, I've been using http://www.birdsource.org/ to identify my birds.

So far, these are some of the birds of our backyard...

Cardinal (male and female)


Tufted titmouse


Eastern towhee


House finch


Blue jay


Redbellied woodpecker


Carolina chickadee


Mourning dove


Mockingbird

There are more species to showcase, but I'll save them for another day :)

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