Nice images you evoke. I am glad your birds have such safe, bushy perches and you get so much enjoyment.
Linda Sent from my iPhone On Mar 31, 2012, at 5:52 PM, Nancy W Dickinson <n...@cornell.edu> wrote: > Since this has been such a spectacular season for forsythia, I thought I'd > mention that my bird feeding area is flanked on both sides by large forsythia > bushes. In every season, the feeder birds find shelter there between > feedings, and when danger threatens. Right now the bushes are beautiful AND > full of birds, and my FOY Chipping Sparrow just popped out of one for a few > minutes of pecking at the seed on the ground. One of my bushes is ancient > and huge, and requires twice-a-year pruning (not to confine its shape, just > its size), but the other is only a few years old, an off-shoot of the older > one, and is a usual staging area for sparrows and juncos etc. on their way to > the feeder. A cheap, simple landscaping plant! I recommend it. (Also, in > cold winters, birds seem to eat the buds, and in those years, my forsythia > blooms in October!) > > Nancy Dickinson > Mecklenburg > -- > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > Welcome and Basics > Rules and Information > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > Archives: > The Mail Archive > Surfbirds > BirdingOnThe.Net > Please submit your observations to eBird! > -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
