Hummingbirds yes. Orioles yes. What about purple martins?
Orioles at the feeder this morning. Gotta get my grape feeder out tonight. I do have a bird watch question....has anyone ever seen a cardinal in ND? I personally never have.
Hummingbirds yes. Orioles yes. What about purple martins?
Not yet but It has happened . I saw pictures on a phone from a friend of a friend who had them at a bird feeder around Carrington.
Interesting , I'm guessing we have them in the trees up here but never notice. They don't seem to migrate back to the same box every year from what I can tell , we have them one year and nothing the next year and sometimes two. I was gone and didn't get the boxes cleaned out and wife watched them chase the swallows out and move in, first time that's happened.The bluebirds were hit hard by that ice storm in Texas a few years back. Takes them a long time to recover and they are fussy nesters. Fewer trees in ND equal fewer bluebirds. One by one the old growth tree claims are taken out.
I've been messing with that Merlin App and it is pretty neat. When I was in Texas in Feb I saw a few different birds that Merlin helped me with. One looked like a cardinal but grey turns out it is a Pyrrhuloxia (have fun trying to pronounce that).This little guy was in our evergreen bush (no idea what kind of bush it actually is) this afternoon.
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My Merlin bird AP tells me it’s this. I have never seen one before.
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