Here is a photo I took this afternoon of a snow bunting, a small, beautiful and fairly rare bird that shows up here during snow season. This one is in non-breeding plumage, with flashing white wings especially noticeable in flight. Snow buntings breed near the arctic circle, and migrate to Massachusetts and northern states ("The South") during winter. Although buntings aren't feeder birds, I enjoy that too. We get cardinals, goldfinches, chickadees, titmice, nuthatches, juncos, pine siskins, occasional Carolina wrens. If you feed the birds, who are your usual suspects?
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Keith, thanks for the lovely picture - I get cardinals, house finches, with the occasional grosbeak, buntings, sparrows, doves, jays, cowbirds, huge flocks of starlings, chickadees and tufties and the occasional woodpecker - downies and their larger cousins. I am sure their are some I have forgotten - but in my defense they are not all here all the time. I used to have pileated woodpeckers in Tennessee but here as compensation for that loss I get an occasional chicken, LOL.
Actually Little Red is gone - since last Thanksgiving - but she was my favorite feeder bird for six years or so. And the cats voted her their number one "watch".
That's beautiful. Afraid I don't ever get anything to compare. Most of mine are what Keith describes as "LBJ's" (little brown jobs), but I do have the best time watching them. I got feeders a couple of years ago with Keith's encouragement and advice, have them set up where I can watch from my computer, and enjoy every minute of it. And I have never fooled with any sort of squirrel baffles, as I also love watching those little acrobats climbing a pole and timing a leap to a feeder.
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