Don’t know if this means anything

Yeah captain musky is right- that’s a tufted titmouse. Only seen one ever here in the south metro.

And BK you may be onto something. Maybe what Dutch is seeing is a nuthatch, but the smaller “red-breasted” variety? I’ll find and post a pic of one-

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I have those nuthatches around here fun little birds to watch.

CaptainMusky wrote:

I have those nuthatches around here fun little birds to watch.

Definitely. I see one of them to about every 20 regular ones

Like chickadees, those nuthatches are easily trainable to come to your hand. Little bit of seed, little bit of patients is all you need.

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Had this guy setup on the bird feeder, looking for mice eating the dropped seed. He stayed until his friend got too close. It was really cool getting a close look at him. about 15 feet out the window.

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Whatever they are they are fun to watch dart in & out of the Pine trees. Amazes me how fast they go without touching a branch.

For all you young guys….this is what you have to look forward too in your old age.

IceNEyes1986 wrote:

Had this guy setup on the bird feeder, looking for mice eating the dropped seed. He stayed until his friend got too close. It was really cool getting a close look at him. about 15 feet out the window.

That would be a cool sight. My wife would go crazy to see that. Every time something different shows up in our back yard she calls me right away to tell me. Its crazy all the things that you see when you have bird and Deer ( No they are squirrel feeders ) One cool but sad sight was when my wife and I were watching two morning doves feeding away on the ground below the feeders and out of no where this red tailed Hawk dives in and get one of the morning doves. My wife yells at me to go out there and save it. I told her it was already to late. The hawk sat on a branch and ate the dove. My wife wanted to get my shotgun and shoot that Hawk. I told her that was just part of nature. She said then shooting the Hawk was also part of nature

fishthumper wrote:

I told her that was just part of nature. She said then shooting the Hawk was also part of nature

LOL

I was looking out the back window yesterday. Had 3 roosters and a half dozen hens at the corn pile.
All of a sudden they bolted except for one – BAM hawk hits it, feathers flying everywhere.
Just so happens the Mastiff was walking back there, hawk left. Hen lives another day.

Cool to see

Wish we had Pheasants up here.

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Wish we ad Pheasants up here.

I saw a rooster by Blackduck one year on the way to LOW. Must have been from a game farm or something I am guessing.

2 times this winter a bird has landed on my camo hoody while I was filling the feeders.