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Aster Droste
Little Rock, AR, USA
I’ve come a long way on my feeder setup since this photo at the beginning of this season: https://feederwatch.org/community/participant-photo/feeder-setup/. Bird activity has massively increased too. My first several counts were mostly very low numbers of titmice, chickadees, and nuthatches. Now, as I write this, I have a red bellied woodpecker hanging off the suet feeder, a small flock of pine siskins fighting over the nyjer and peanut chip feeders, a couple titmice and chickadees trying to get to the peanut chips around the siskins, a white breasted nuthatch hammering open a sunflower seed, a squirrel chowing down at the squirrel feeder, a male/female pair of house finches at a sunflower seed feeder, a Carolina wren foraging on the ground with over a dozen juncos and siskins, a couple of siskins at the birdbath, a red breasted nuthatch on the upside down suet feeder… and this was all in the span of just a couple minutes. Pretty awesome!!
Fun
Category: Fun
Two tube feeders with sunflower seeds, one tube feeder with peanut chips, one tube feeder with nyjer, one large mesh tube feeder with nyjer, one small suet cage, one large suet cage, one upside-down suet cage, one hanging basket feeder (with sunflower seeds, soldier fly larvae, and whole peanuts), one squirrel feeder with sunflower seeds, one birdbath with a small fountain, and a seed mix (mostly millet and cracked corn) scattered on the ground!
I didn’t realize the caption would cover up the photo, but unfortunately I can’t edit it now that I’ve submitted it 🙁
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