This afternoon, I spent some time in the back of my yard, looking for a small song bird that I'd earlier seen up in the trees. That was probably a House Finch, but the leaf litter below those trees was busy. Moving in after a Spotted Towhee was a White-throated Sparrow, both scratching around for bird seed. This was a new yard bird for me. And it's an especially gratifying one, as the White-throated Sparrow is among my favorite birds for all the singing it does in the woods around my wife's hometown in northern Minnesota.
Around the yard: My first yard junco of the season stopped by this morning and a scrub jay has been visiting, along with the magpies and Blue Jays, my platform feeder for in-shell peanuts. (The scrub jay is now noisily attacking the cruddy PetSmart suet that I recently purchased and that the woodpeckers seem to be avoiding.) At one point, it seemed to me that a magpie was dampening a peanut in my bird bath. At a minimum, it flew from the platform feeder to the bird bath, put the peanut down in the bath, took a few drinks, retrieved its food, then flew off. So perhaps it was only at the water for a drink. I couldn't tell. I've seen crows soften food in water, but not yet magpies. - Jared Del Rosso Centennial, CO -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/ff29deb1-ada7-4aa3-8c6a-8b11b0c420be%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
