In 1991 winter, we hadan American Goshawk dive shallowly at the Dark-eyed Juncos, Mourning Doves, Gray Squirrels, Eastern Chipmunks, and Eastern Cottontails at the white proso millet on the ground below the feeder. Once one out of twenty juncos, Slate-colored race, had single white wing bars on each wing, a natural occurrence for this subspecies. Maurice Broun, first curator of Haek Mountain, called Evening Grosbeaks "grospigs" because they consumed so many sunflower seeds.
I didn't mention the kinds of feeders I have, but your comment inspired me to edit the post to mention the birds that come to the white millet I scatter on the ground. (I added a couple other photos and a few more edits while I was at it.)
Thank you! It was awesome, Bruce! I'm sharing with my Quaker meeting who's planting natives, the PA Birders Facebook page, and my local bird club's education committee chair and VP. We have a person who had a rare Clay-colored a couple of winters ago near Easton, PA, where the Lehigh River spills into the Delaware. She gets fall Lincoln's Sparrows and White-crowned Sparrows in winter as well. We got north of Easton in Upper Mount Bethel a roadside Harris's Sparrow and kept it there for a while by feeding it cracked corn. But it was in an area of few House Sparrows and starlings at the time so not much competed with it.
In 1991 winter, we hadan American Goshawk dive shallowly at the Dark-eyed Juncos, Mourning Doves, Gray Squirrels, Eastern Chipmunks, and Eastern Cottontails at the white proso millet on the ground below the feeder. Once one out of twenty juncos, Slate-colored race, had single white wing bars on each wing, a natural occurrence for this subspecies. Maurice Broun, first curator of Haek Mountain, called Evening Grosbeaks "grospigs" because they consumed so many sunflower seeds.
I didn't mention the kinds of feeders I have, but your comment inspired me to edit the post to mention the birds that come to the white millet I scatter on the ground. (I added a couple other photos and a few more edits while I was at it.)
Thank you! It was awesome, Bruce! I'm sharing with my Quaker meeting who's planting natives, the PA Birders Facebook page, and my local bird club's education committee chair and VP. We have a person who had a rare Clay-colored a couple of winters ago near Easton, PA, where the Lehigh River spills into the Delaware. She gets fall Lincoln's Sparrows and White-crowned Sparrows in winter as well. We got north of Easton in Upper Mount Bethel a roadside Harris's Sparrow and kept it there for a while by feeding it cracked corn. But it was in an area of few House Sparrows and starlings at the time so not much competed with it.
Who's Bruce?
That was an awesome post, Laura