I was telling the wife earlier i will probably be looking into setting some traps in the attic just as preventative maintenance and so that when they do begin to appear i will know early on.
I've never even seen a dove land on my feeders. The sparrows keep the ground well stocked. I did find a chipmunk eating some seed today and watched him run into his burrow probably 10 feet from my feeders.
Those are definitely chipping sparrows. I have got a ton of them and they are the little jerks that knocked all my mixed seed onto the ground for everyone else to eat off the ground. When i put the mixed seed in the sparrows had an inch or more layer of millet and nyjer seed on the ground.
Cobalt 60 i am still thinking the one bird is a Summer Tanager and not a House Finch. The picture makes the lower half very faded but the wing portion is the only part of the bird that is a light brown. Everything else is a pale red.
EDIT The beak definitely looks more house finch but man...
I live in a neighborhood so a pellet gun is my first choice but my other neighbor also uses a shotgun for his rabbit problem he was having last summer. I work at TSC so i have customers come in constantly talking about their birds in their yard so i wanted to jump in on it. The guides we sell...
These are my 2 squirrel deterrents. It was kind of a waterfall effect, i bought the one feeder, a month later i bought the next then a few days later i bought the hummingbird feeder. Now i am beginning my search for a bird bath. I am about to have a little girl and i think it will be fun to sit...
So i've recently learned to enjoy what i've got at home instead of going out looking for fun stuff to do that cost money. Anyways i've recently added a black oil sunflower seed feeder, a suet cake feeder and a hummingbird feeder to my yard. So far i have identified male and female cardinals...