December 2, 2011 - 2
Backyard Sightings For Last Week:Including northern cardinals, dark-eyed juncos, purple finches, house finches, goldfinches, chipping sparrows and song sparrows. Carolina wrens, pine warblers, and black-capped chickadees, catbirds, mockingbirds, brown thrashers and brown creepers. Red-bellied and downy woodpeckers, yellow-bellied sapsuckers, blue-jays, northern flickers, white-breasted nuthatches, tufted titmice, mourning doves, crows. Also, grey squirrels, skunks, opossums, deer, and even more gulls very high up in the sky again this week.
Cool Sightings Of The Week:
An American robin was spotted marching and foraging through the driveway the other day, the last day of November. As mentioned last week, robins aren't typically seen in this backyard much past late August. I'd always thought that was when they migrated away for the season, but perhaps they stay in the area and move around as needed to maintain their diet. Or, maybe a few are still here because of the unusually warm fall weather. I'm not sure, but its nice to see the robins just the same.
Also this week, a big crow was spotted eating bread scraps last Saturday morning. He's got an interesting routine and technique to soften the bread. The crow takes a whole piece of bread from the ground, hops up onto the birdbath, and drops it in. The crow then picks the piece back up out of the water and flips it over to soften it more. I call it the french toast technique!
Autumn will soon give way to winter, but it's still kind of warm here in this backyard. Catching sight of a robin this week and spotting a crow using the french toast technique was very cool!
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