December 13, 2022
| Brown Creeper by Stacey Headey |
For the seventh season in a row, Undertaking FeederWatch and our sponsor Wild Birds Limitless are rewarding registered FeederWatchers with the prospect to win prizes. This 12 months, Celestron is becoming a member of the enjoyable and providing one pair of binoculars to every information entry contest winner as nicely. After coming into hen counts (information) into the FeederWatch web site, members have the chance to share a narrative, reminiscence, or tip by clicking the “Enter to Win” button on the Depend Abstract web page. We randomly choose two winners per immediate. Our first Knowledge Entry contest immediate this season was:
Usually watching your feeder space provides you a larger likelihood at witnessing an unimaginable occasion! Inform us a couple of memorable second that occurred close to or at your feeders.
Congratulations to our winners, Lisa Meacham and Debi Blankenship!
Lisa shared:
I used to be thrilled to see a Brown Creeper on the latest Undertaking FeederWatch depend interval. It’s solely the third time I’ve ever seen one in my yard and the primary time since 2012. It hitched its manner up my oak bushes in its attribute vogue, and it returned a number of instances all through the day. What a deal with!
Whereas they largely eat bugs, Brown Creepers might go to feeder setups providing suet, peanut hearts, hulled sunflower seeds, and extra. You may even see them zigzagging upwards on giant, previous tree trunks, foraging for meals. Questioning what meals will appeal to what birds to your yard? Take a look at Undertaking FeederWatch’s Widespread Feeder Birds Interactive to discover species’ meals preferences, feeder sort preferences, and extra.
Debi shared:
Final 12 months we had so many woodpeckers feeding their infants outdoors our window, and I used to be so excited to see three Pileated Woodpeckers again once more! The dad and mom have fed their infants frequently the previous three years, and the infants return now, together with the dad and mom. Now I’m ready for the Crimson-headed Woodpeckers to return too!
If in case you have useless or dying bushes in your property, take into account leaving them or leaving tall stumps whether it is secure to take action. Useless snags typically host a plethora of insect life, and should appeal to Pileated Woodpeckers (in addition to different cavity-nesting birds) as a spot to forage for bugs or excavate and construct their nests within the softening wooden. You can even appeal to birds to nest by putting in a nest field. Go to Cornell’s NestWatch web site to obtain free nest field development plans.
Due to everybody who participated and shared their tales – we want we may share all your submissions! Learn the tales from previous winners on our weblog. E mail feederwatch@cornell.edu with questions. Keep tuned for once we announce our subsequent information entry contest winners on January tenth, 2023.
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