◇Birding tales and musings from a zhuard's perspective◇ ◇Emphasis on Corvids!◇ Photos(c)SNW/TheBridgeBeyond
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What in the advanced maneuver is this?
..In other news, the house got an upgrade but the store didn't have the tile I liked, so it's only half an upgrade imo. Maybe I'll sharpie some windows on it one day. The fourty cardinals in the yard agree.
There are so. Many. Cardinals.
#wingsabovethebridge#birds#bird musings#squirrel musings#I wish I was that athletic#you could've just ate at the tray but no you had to show off and show out
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Musings: As suggested, someone told me to swap out a majority of the food with safflower seeds. Partly did that...the lower tray holds a lot of safflower, the upper 'flower' tray still has peanuts, and the house has a mix. The little house feeder I redesigned so that larger birds couldn't tamper with it. Perhaps everything worked too well- the grackles don't even stop by for the peanuts anymore and it's been two weeks. Well, they were entertaining while they lasted.
The Nest has now turned into a cardinal pit-stop: from sun up to sun down it's a cardinal jamboree. They even sit on the tiny ledge of the house-birdfeeder because they are small enough to do that, apparently. The safflower seeds are cardinal crack confirmed, and a new group of safflower addicted birds have taken over when the cardinals allow them to: house finches! I like both of these guys- although I'm keeping an eye on the finches. They aren't always the healthiest birds at a birdfeeder.
The three cardinal fledglings seem to be fine on their own now. They seem to enjoy harassing and dive bombing the towhees on the ground, like typical rowdy teenagers.
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Eastern towhee!
A majestic, angry looking tennis ball of a bird with a small mohawk.
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"Hey hooman, can we bring some friends over?"
Me:"sure."
The friends:

The Nest sometimes hosts entire grackle galas, but they like to fly off after a good ten minutes. They return maybe two hours later or so. Weirdly enough, they don't eat as much as it seems- the tray remains fairly full. Some of the other birds don't care about the grackles and waltz around with them (cardinals, doves and finches). The bluejays hate these guys! They often compete for the upper peanut tray, and usually, the jays win. The grack-gang seems to be scared of the blue feathered mafia.
It's [almost] free entertainment!
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"Feed me!...wait where are you going?"
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Between them and the grackles- and every other bird that prefers the top tray (looking at you Redboi), it gets emptied almost daily. All that's missing are the crows, and then I'd have to start seriously writing 'whole and chopped peanuts' into the monthly budget!
The grackles are by far the messiest peanut eaters I've ever experienced. Somehow, more peanut pieces go flying out their beaks than what's taken in! They are very entertaining to watch, though. Hanging upside-down on the birdhouse-feeder seems to be a favorite thing to them.
Many of the birds have visited the Nest feeder with their fledglings in tow. The cardinals seemed to have two younger fledgelings hoping around them. I'm surprised at the lack of cowbird fledglings; I would have expected to see at least one given how many adults I've counted in the neighborhood.
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The grackles have found the Nest! Thankfully, they've been pretty tame and often sit with the cardinals on the tray.
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I'm still here and birding with the Nest until the next tyrant with wings wants to move in... but also thinking forward: some day the Nest and I will relocate! But until either of those events happen, I'm getting plenty of new visitors to the bird feeder who did not visit before: eastern towhees, morning doves, cowbirds, finches, grackles along with the usuals. I might have to consider a loss with the crows- my yard isn't very attractive to them. As sad as that is, the blue jays antics are amusing enough!
I'll be testing out a new monocular/scope in a few days, finally. I feel like changing out and trying out scopes, like with cameras, is just a hobby at this point.
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I awoke to hawk calls, so I went to go check on the Nest. It wasn't a hawk, just a blue jay reminding me the peanut tray was empty.
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Snow birds-
And Edward Scissorbeak the titmouse has been spotted. They seem to eat and drink just fine, so not a crazy jarring example of avian keratin disorder- but definitely noticeable.
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Welp, Corvidcam decided to go to sleep and never wake up around 1am this morning. I tried and troubleshot for about an hour but it's gone for good.
Now I have to get a legit birdcamera. Thankfully I know a few physical places I can just go out and get one. The micro SD card I'll just transfer over, but today, let's mourn the loss of Corvidcam. Your blurry lens helped me a lot. RIP.
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Okay so the blue jays 100% read last night's post because there were about ten of them camped out waiting for me in the tree. They overwhelmed the bully I was talking about, though, so I guess that's a win.. I'm just going to have to buy a 10lb bag of peanuts now instead of a measly 2lb bag- just like the good ol' days when Hekyll and crew ate me out of house and home with their peanut addiction (we don't dare talk of how much I spent on eggs for the ravens). No complaints though- I fully welcome any corvid to the Nest.
My jays don't seem to bully anyone. They even let the titmice eat from the in-shell peanuts which... I'm not sure how those little birds are lifting and flying off with a treat that's as tall as them (they must have a gym behind the holly trees I don't know about). More power to them!
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So psa..The Nest might switch to a whole-shell peanut feeder (at least temporarily) for a while because some-feathered-menace wants to be an asshole (the m.o of this particular bird). So while I sort this out, perhaps I can hope for some peanut addicted corvids.
#wingsabovethebridge#bird musings#I regret having holly trees in the yard#super regret#I was having fun with the Nest while it lasted#back to my covid roots I suppose#the issue will be dealt with in any case#I envy those who don't have consistent bully birds at their feeders
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It was sleet before it started to snow again. Redboi showed up for breakfast as usual - sleet, snow, it doesn't matter to him.
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Titmouse and chickadee jamboree will have to wait- it's snowing this morning! I can partially set up the Nest for a bit.
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I really just threw Corvidcam out to the wolves (aka absolutely curious birds) after it was inactive for 6 months or so and not a single update to its firmware. Oops. Maybe that's why everything is a blur-who knows.
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Here it is- the thing I said I probably wasn't going to do, but the birds love landing near the camera and gave me no choice: the Corvidcam [formerly birdcam] compilation # 1!
This is from yesterday- which was about the only day so far that I could even experiment with this due to heavy rains. Needless to say, the camera seems like a pretty popular perching spot.
No question as to who the main character is of this compilation- you'll hear them chattering throughout: the wren demanded all the action! It also seems the jays have claimed the upper nest for themselves momentarily.
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The jays are eating me out of house and home, but I love my new blue corvid mafia (if you feed jays, you know).
That said, a lot of birds seem to like looking straight into (and landing *on*) the camera- and boy do I have a lot of birdy footage to compile together just of today alone.
It has been complete and total downpours the past few days- with more on the way apparently- so this is the first time the Nest is back up.
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