no more male juncos

first, let me explain what juncos are, they are birds with black heads and brown wings and white underparts, the thing is they migrate north for the summer(they are here in winter but up north for summer) OK, now that you know a little bit about juncos, I'll explain the story.

so today, when I was watching birds, I noticed that there were no male juncos(you can tell if there males, if they have a much darker head) you are probably wondering why? well, they actually migrate before the females, to set up a territory! pretty cool huh! juncos are pretty cool birds!


to learn more about juncos, click here

nesting in our yard!!

today, I found out that there are some starling that are nesting in a crack in between our porch roof and our house roof, (that tells how old this house is) they did the same thing last year, it is all ways fun (no matter what bird it is) to watch them nest. There are a lot of people that think starlings are pests, but I think all birds should be able to nest, and are fun.

I encourage you to build or buy a bird house and put it up, not just to help the bird, but to be something fun for you to watch! it is very fun, I promise you.

the best place to put a bird house is in trees where you see the birds most often, don't get worried if the birds have a Lot of competition, because they will, if there is to much, then just put up another bird house! trees, bushes, fences with bushes around it, these are all good places to put up a bird house. if you don't know how big a bird house should be, then buy a birdhouse book to help, or just by a birdhouse, I would get the book, because then you can build birdhouses whenever you want, I recommend the stokes birdhouse book, click here. well... just an encouragement to get some bird houses up!

birds are everywhere

today, I woke up early to fill up the feeders and noticed that there where birds every were!! so I filled up the feeders and put some cracked walnuts on the ground, then I went inside and noticed that I had forgotten to put some ground seed out on the ground, so I got the bag of bird seed and I had also noticed that there was a group of pine siskens at my feeders, so I got a hand full of seed and was about to through it when a pine sisken landed right on my hand and started eating the birdseed out of my hand!!!

I also saw
flickers,
finches,
house and junco sparrows,
blue gray warblers,
starlings,
robins,
California gulls,
Eurasian colored doves,
morning doves,
and downy woodpeckers.

anyway, today has been a great day for birding!