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"Padraig" wrote:

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Do you, perchance, have a good seed feeder for other birds?

A family of redbirds (common name in Texas for Cardinals) has been
flitting around my yard now for the past two weeks, One pair and looks
like 3 or 4 younglings.


Yes. I get mostly sparrows and the like - nothing very colorful or
significant. I posted a shot of a Western Scrub Jay a couple of weeks ago
but he hasn't been back.

Pat

I enjoyed that one! We have the resident common blue jays here. Unlike
the scrub jays, these have a crest, much like the Steller's jay except
different markings, and smaller.

http://www.passporttotexas.com/birds/oct.html

Wonderful personalities, but we've had an influx of crows move in
recently, so I've not seen may Jays lately.

You never get Orioles on your hummingbird feeders?
We used to get Baltimores every fall during the migratory season up in
Lake Hughes.

Little pigs would hang from the feeders and just tilt it enough to spill
"nectar" into their mouths, but we had roosts on ours. Maybe you will
get lucky now that you do too. :-)

Brilliant orange, yellow and black birds!

http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/i5070id.html

When we moved to Colorado and set up a bird feeder, our most interesting
visitors were magpies and the black squirrels with the tufted ears. The
third pic down are the ones that used to visit us, along with common
gray tree squirrels:

http://www.wildlifedamage.com/squirrels.htm

The tree squirrels here in Texas are serious pests! I can't even set up
seed bird feeders without going to great lengths (which I will
eventually do).

Not so cute when they do enough damage........ sigh
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