H.J. Ruiz – Avian101 – Page 1004 – "My Backyard Visitors" – All about birds

It’s worth it!

I noticed that our lawn’s grass is getting yellowish and some parts are light brown, it’s obvious that our weather has changed to cooler mornings and nights, also gets breeze during the day. Let’s face it the Autumn is here!

We live in a new Subdivision, during the three years that we’ve reside here, my wife and I have made some friends from different families, neighbors that are nice and friendly.

When I set-up the feeders in my backyard (2 only) everybody was kind of skeptic about my idea or doubted my curiosity.

The time has proven that I was right, there are many birds around our area, we just didn’t see them!

Last Spring I had cars from my neighbors slowing down to peek at the feeders filled with all kinds of birds. Some of my friends are doing the same I did, put-up feeders to see if they get some birds. They do get them, but they wish they get more like me.

I feel lucky to be close to a creek and some trees which are apparent good sites for building nests.

A lot of my neighbors as my wife and I do too, walk daily around the subdivision as a way to exercise, which is good for anybody’s health. But you can see some of them stop for a few seconds and see what kind of birds are feeding at that time. I feel proud of my backyard visitors!

Apparently have inspired and encouraged other people to get some interest on birds, I feel that I have contributed to Nature somehow.

For whomever read my post or visit my Blog I ask you to make any comment, give me your impressions about my ideas, photos or any suggestions that might help me be more useful to other people that love birds.

Here I give you one of my favorite pictures!

Northern Cardinal & Blue Grosbeak

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Sea Birds from Peru

Last June I spent my vacation in Lima the Capital of Peru, visited many places within the city, also went on a drive to see different towns and ports north and south of Lima.

There are a number of beaches along the coastline of Lima. Some have piers or harbor s (Fishing towns) some others only serve as resorts or public beaches. They’re quite nice. I hear that they get very busy in Summer!

While I was doing my tourist routine I had the opportunity to photograph some seabirds that called my attention. They are in my gallery beyond my backyard.

Talking to some friends that were also traveling in Peru, they mentioned what everybody call “The birds Paradise” They are talking about a place called Manu, located in the southeast part of the Amazon jungle. It’s the place where birders from all over the world are fascinated with the tremendous variety of new birds species. I spoke with someone that was there and talk about wonders of landscapes and rarity and beauty of the birds. Also mentioned certain difficulties to get to that point, but is obvious that they made it OK! 🙂

I’m including Manu to my list of places to go visit.

: Peruvian Pelican

: Peruvian Pelican

: Inca Tern

: Booby

: Peruvian Seagull

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Bird Migration

I’ve noticed that many of the birds that usually visit my feeders have not been around for a while. Lately I see many Northern Cardinals, Carolina Chickadees, Mourning Doves, some Shiny Cowbirds and a few times Northern Mockingbird or House Finches. I wonder if the rest have started to migrate. Maybe I should take in consideration the weather temperature that has been dropping into the 30’s F at night and mornings in the past few days, of course that warms up later from middle 60’s to low 70’s. Perhaps it might be cold enough for some birds to start their migration heading south where is warmer. I’m going to research about this matter a bit.

Forgot to mention, I had a surprise visit yesterday, a Song Sparrow was hopping around pecking on fallen seeds from the feeders. At first I wasn’t sure about the identification until I saw the pattern of the white beard from the bill to the cheek. (See photo)

Song Sparrow

From far I thought that it was a White-Throated Sparrow, but did not have the yellow stripes on the crown. However, they move around in a similar way.

I’m so happily entertained with the birds stuff, I’m thinking of extending my birding to further than my backyard, actually all of Georgia is my backyard! 🙂