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| Two goldfinches and a white-breasted nuthatch |
I've been keeping a casual list of birds I've seen on my visits to the garden and had managed to accumulate 28 species for my Green Meadows Bird List. If I'd been taking binoculars to the garden to specifically look for birds I'd have a much longer list! In just one hour of standing near the shed and looking through the binoculars, I managed to add 4 more species.
The shed makes a great place to stand and watch birds for two reasons: it acts as a bird blind and as shelter from the brutal wind. Saturday, anything that protected us from the wind was greatly appreciated!
What is a bird blind you say?
Any thing that keeps the birds from being aware of you. Examples: a car, the house, the over hang of the shed or a specific shelter built for watching birds.
Kitty was at the garden to do Garden Duty but there weren't any crazy gardeners out Saturday afternoon so she joined me looking for birds. As you can tell from her smile she was having fun even if she was freezing.
Two frozen gardeners (Mike and Sue) stopped by after they finished their walk but they didn't stay long!
3 comments:
The birds are so beautiful....Which feeder were the birds visiting the most?
Good job on your bird count outing Vicki, Kitty and Mike & Sue. The weather was quite frigid here in Hilton Head Island, SC 23 degrees with a wind child of 16 degrees this morning. See you at the garden this week.
Denise: they were visiting all the feeders at the same rate of speed as far as I could tell. That picture was of the feeder next to Bird Boxes 1 & 20. I was standing under the overhang near the gate.
Jim: I did think of you and Kathy and wondered how cold and windy it was up there. Beach & wind & water = Tripple BRRRRRRrrrrr.
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