December 13, 2022
| Brown Creeper by Stacey Headey |
For the seventh season in a row, Venture FeederWatch and our sponsor Wild Birds Limitless are rewarding registered FeederWatchers with the prospect to win prizes. This 12 months, Celestron is becoming a member of the enjoyable and providing one pair of binoculars to every knowledge entry contest winner as properly. After coming into chook counts (knowledge) into the FeederWatch web site, contributors have the chance to share a narrative, reminiscence, or tip by clicking the “Enter to Win” button on the Depend Abstract web page. We randomly choose two winners per immediate. Our first Knowledge Entry contest immediate this season was:
Commonly watching your feeder space provides you a larger likelihood at witnessing an unbelievable occasion! Inform us a few memorable second that occurred close to or at your feeders.
Congratulations to our winners, Lisa Meacham and Debi Blankenship!
Lisa shared:
I used to be thrilled to see a Brown Creeper on the latest Venture FeederWatch depend interval. It’s solely the third time I’ve ever seen one in my yard and the primary time since 2012. It hitched its approach up my oak bushes in its attribute vogue, and it returned a number of instances all through the day. What a deal with!
Whereas they principally eat bugs, Brown Creepers could go to feeder setups providing suet, peanut hearts, hulled sunflower seeds, and extra. You may even see them zigzagging upwards on giant, previous tree trunks, foraging for meals. Questioning what meals will entice what birds to your yard? Try Venture FeederWatch’s Frequent Feeder Birds Interactive to discover species’ meals preferences, feeder kind preferences, and extra.
Debi shared:
Final 12 months we had so many woodpeckers feeding their infants outdoors our window, and I used to be so excited to see three Pileated Woodpeckers again once more! The mother and father have fed their infants often the previous three years, and the infants return now, together with the mother and father. Now I’m ready for the Purple-headed Woodpeckers to return too!
You probably have lifeless or dying bushes in your property, take into account leaving them or leaving tall stumps whether it is secure to take action. Useless snags typically host a plethora of insect life, and will entice Pileated Woodpeckers (in addition to different cavity-nesting birds) as a spot to forage for bugs or excavate and construct their nests within the softening wooden. You may as well entice birds to nest by putting in a nest field. Go to Cornell’s NestWatch web site to obtain free nest field development plans.
Because of everybody who participated and shared their tales – we want we may share all your submissions! Learn the tales from previous winners on our weblog. E mail feederwatch@cornell.edu with questions. Keep tuned for once we announce our subsequent knowledge entry contest winners on January tenth, 2023.
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