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.