April 8, 2025
| Carolina Wren by Mark Sak | ML632163015 |
For the ninth season in a row, Venture FeederWatch and our sponsor Wild Birds Limitless are rewarding registered FeederWatchers with the prospect to win prizes. Celestron has joined the enjoyable by providing one pair of binoculars to every knowledge entry contest winner as properly. After getting into counts into the FeederWatch web site, individuals 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 ultimate Information Entry contest immediate this season was:
What’s your favourite fowl 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, Ruadhan Ward and Marilyn Drucker!
Ruadhan shared:
My favourite fowl to see at my feeders is the Northern Flicker. I like birds within the woodpecker household, however earlier than seeing it at my feeder, I’d by no means heard of them earlier than! I usually hear birds earlier than I see them and once I first heard the calls of the Northern Flicker I used to be blown away. It took a pair days earlier than I lastly noticed the fowl and I used to be struck by their wild plumage! Now when the Northern Flicker visits my feeder, it’s essentially the most thrilling a part of my day. They need to be coming again to the feeder in full drive quickly!
After they’re not visiting feeders, Northern Glints eat primarily bugs. Not like different woodpecker species, they usually want to forage on the bottom as an alternative of bushes to eat ants, beetles, snails, and extra, utilizing their lengthy, barb-tipped tongue. You’ll be able to learn to entice birds, like these woodpeckers, through the use of Venture FeederWatch’s Widespread Feeder Birds Interactive Device to be taught every species’ meals and feeder preferences.
Marilyn shared:
My favourite fowl is the Carolina Wren – or ought to I say Carolina Wren(s)? Most frequently, two come to the feeder collectively. They just like the suet and infrequently use the birdbath for a drink or a brief dip within the water. Whereas some birds don’t like being shut to one another on the feeders, the Carolina Wren couple will probably be seen subsequent to 1 one other or on both facet of the suet feeder. My feeders invite these native birds into my yard, encouraging them to remain all yr lengthy. I see them nesting every spring and summer time in both a window field, or the leaf bin, and discover the entire household consuming bugs within the vegetable gardens. It’s straightforward to be taught the place they’re by their loud and diverse songs and calls. Each time I see them, I smile.
A shy fowl that may be onerous to identify, the Carolina Wren is commonly heard earlier than being seen! It sings a piercing tea-kettle tea-kettle tune all through forests and wooded backyards. In spring, you might discover them nesting in garages, flower pots, hanging ferns, or different quiet locations in your property. Contemplate retaining a brush pile or placing up a Carolina Wren nest field (plans obtainable for obtain from NestWatch right here) to encourage them to take up residence in your yard.
Because of everybody who participated and shared their tales over the 2024-2025 season – we want we might share your entire submissions! Learn the tales from previous winners on our weblog. E mail [email protected] with questions.
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