The Alberta Express blew through eastern Virginia over the weekend and we had a dusting of snow Saturday night. I thought for sure that the cold snap would bring in the birds (see
my earlier blog post on this), but no such luck. At one point on Sunday morning my feeder got a little busy, but it was just the usual suspects.
This morning I saw my first white-throated sparrow of the season under the feeder. Yea! But other than that, the birds I reported to
Project FeederWatch this morning were:
| Red-bellied Woodpecker | 1 |
| Downy Woodpecker | 2 |
| Blue Jay | 1 |
| Carolina Chickadee | 2 |
| Tufted Titmouse | 3 |
| Carolina Wren | 2 |
| White-throated Sparrow | 1 |
| Northern Cardinal | 1 |
| House Finch | 2 | | | |
I enjoyed watching a female red-bellied woodpecker fly back and forth between the safflower seed feeder (see her tail in the photo above?) and
the woodpecker tree that we "planted" last spring. I wondered if she was stashing seeds in the holes she pecked? Or was she just alternating tasty bites of insect with the seeds? Birds always prefer insects. I believe that's what Doug Tallamy said in the
Bringing Nature Home
video that I watched last week at the
Master Naturalists meeting.
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