January 10, 2023
| Black-capped Chickadee by Candace Trost |
For the seventh season in a row, Challenge 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 hen counts (knowledge) into the FeederWatch web site, members 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 second Information Entry contest immediate this season was:
What’s your favourite hen to see at your feeders? Do you wait all season for a glimpse of it, or does it come day by day? Share with us what makes that species so particular to see at your feeders!
Congratulations to our winners, Kristi Bathgate and Therese Walsh!
Kristi shared:
I take pleasure in when Black-capped Chickadees go to my feeders. Their petite dimension and coloring make them cute. And I’m fascinated by their one-seed-at-a-time feeding methodology. They seize a seed, fly to a close-by lilac tree, maintain a seed with their foot, and peck to open. As soon as, a chickadee dropped the seed, flew to the bottom, discovered it, and went again up within the tree to complete opening and consuming it.
Black-capped Chickadees are one of the vital widespread feeder birds and the best to draw to feeders, as they take pleasure in a variety of meals and are typically fairly curious. They’ll usually disguise meals to save lots of for later and cache seeds in a number of totally different spots; Black-capped Chickadees can keep in mind 1000’s of hiding locations. Try Cornell’s All About Birds to discover “cool information,” life histories, identification assist, and extra about Black-capped Chickadees and different hen species.
Therese shared:
The hen I most stay up for seeing within the winter months is the Pink-bellied Woodpecker. We’re charmed by their duck-and-weave neck actions, their deep-throated name, and the truth that they bow to nobody on the feeder; even the Blue Jays hightail it out of there when the Pink-bellied Woodpeckers arrive. They adore peanuts within the winter, and oranges within the hotter months.
Pink-bellied Woodpeckers could come to feeder setups inside their japanese U.S. vary that provide peanuts, fruit, safflower, suet, cracked corn, mealworms, and extra. They’ve additionally been identified to feed on berry bushes resembling hawthorn or mountain-ash. Discover out extra about what Pink-bellied Woodpeckers and different hen species wish to eat by utilizing Challenge FeederWatch’s Widespread Feeder Birds Interactive device.
Because of everybody who participated and shared their tales – we want we may share your whole submissions! Learn the tales from previous winners on our weblog. Electronic mail feederwatch@cornell.edu with questions. Keep tuned for once we announce our subsequent knowledge entry contest winners on February 14th, 2023.
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