Hi,
I am a new backyard birding member. I have a renewed interest in attracting beautiful birds to my yard. I have a big double glass french door in my kitchen that looks out over my back yard. WE have an old barn just beyond the back yard. I have several feeders for wild bird seed, thistle saks for the finches, hummingbird feeders on a pole that my husband made. SEveral bird houses that are housing Eastern blue birds. WE have attracted yellow and purple finches, cardinals, blue birds, hummers, among several other common backyard birds. But the big news is that in the past couple of days we discovered we have a prothonotary warbler nesting in an old abandoned house on the farm near our home. This old house is only a couple of rooms that were spared when the old original house was torn down. There is a hole in the attic and it appears the warbler is nesting in the attic, because the male is carrying food back to the hole in the attic everyday. This is the first one I have seen. Today I spotted an indigo bunting on the bird feeder in the back yard. Another first for me. I just got back into birdwatching when I recently married and moved to this farm where my husband is a retired farmer. WE are surrounded by pastures with 3 ponds. There are woodlands all around us. There is a river that floods the low lands and farms around the community when there is alot of rain. It is very rural here where we live and we have geese, ducks, and herrons as well as wild turkey, deer, and all kinds of wildlife. But most of all I enjoy the birds.
I hope to learn more and get responses !!!!
Jackie