A change in the Weather

 

A change in the Weather

 

 

 

 

 Monday morning I focused on observing more than just the Song Birds themselves, I began to observe everything that occurs outside the tree and where the feeder is located. The tree is filled of orange-yellow leaves and it looks absolutely amazing. As a kid I would always be more exited for fall instead of summer, anyways, in the fall when the leaves fall and birds like ducks and geese migrate to the south for the winter would be the highlight of my year. The grass is still green with the brutally cold mornings that mother nature brings us, but soon it will lack life and become dry. The birds don't seem to be affected by the cold morning.

 

I will insert a picture as soon as I get a memory card reader, later on.

 

 

The house finches on Tuesday morning is what surprised me I would never have thought I would see house finches at my new house, since they only would come to my old house on grove. They are given a warm welcome  with some dry grass to stuff their nests to stay far from freezing."This morning I counted five gold finches"(field notes). The smell of rain strengthens the smell of the thistle and the birds go nuts over the feeder and the tree. Scat is all around the base of the tree and draped over the branches and leaves. Amazing how much poop come out of a little bird, might be gross, but the fact just fascinates me. These songs birds are becoming more and more interesting everyday.

 

 "I find it strange that these birds are still feeding when its 35 degrees outside"(taken from field notes). I just had an idea what it would be like if I was eating outside at that temperature. My cereal would be rock solid and my eggs would taste disgusting. The cold breeze and humidity is showing no mercy on the grass. The grass is burning up with the frost every morning. It sounds ironic that grass is "burning" up by the touch of Jack frost's finger tips. Jack frost is right around the corner lurking in every corner and gust of wind while I just sit on the steps to my house enjoying the view of the mountain tops.

Observing Song Birds through the five senses

 

 

 

Observing Song Birds through the five senses

 

 

Monday morning was very successful in observing the birds because it was nice a toasty. The sound of the chirps tells me what a great morning it was. Gold finches sound like any other song bird but the chirp really says something about these wonderful birds, that they are absolutely amazing.    Tuesday and Wednesday I had the feeder bag empty just to see what are other parts of a song bird diet. The Tuesday morning was pretty frosty around 43 degrees f. The birds seem to be eating up the small black spiders that hop around with every step I take. Not only the birds were eating the spiders but also picking at the shade tree leaves for a bright golden little flower that falls from the tree the pick usually from two to three little branches of the golden flowers and fly off to eat it. That was a very interesting Wednesday I will never forget. Thursday I see a bird I haven't seen around Reno being that I have been living here for 9 years. The little bird had a different sound than a gold finch, house finch, or warbler. The chirp was two at a time and very high pitched "peep-- peeeep". One bird was black headed with the same colors of a sparrow but black headed and the other seem to be wearing bright yellow eye shadow and the tips were white and two strips from beak to tail. I find this really intriguing I need to know what bird it is. This Friday and Saturday I just watched for what the birds do. I found out something very cool and interesting American and lesser gold finches always always travel in groups or pairs but never alone. I wondered why and now I know since they are such small animals they need to go together or else a crow will gulf them down in one bite. If they are in groups they can spread and scram and confuse the crow. When the day brings bugs the birds will eat bugs if no bugs are present they will eat feed but if there is feed and bugs available they rather go for the bugs is it a higher source of nutrition for them? could be. They will eat any insect from mosquitos to black widows, since I have an army of them.