On June 10, 2008 I put up a bird feeder in my back yard, I live in a semi-wooded neighborhood in Chapel Hill, North Carolina with a fairly deep lot and some mature red oaks and pines. There's a large cane break that straddles my back yard and my neighbor's. It's big enough that a family of five or six deer frequently hide in there during the winter. They never seem to be around in the summer.
Since I put up the bird feeder, I've seen the following birds:
June 14, 2008
house finch (male)
cardinal (male)
house sparrow
house finch (female)
cardinal (female)
June 15, 2008
carolina chickadee (poecile carolinensis)
tufted titmouse (baelophus bicolor)
June 19, 2008
mockingbird (he was not in my back yard, but outside 1829 Franklin Street)
June 20, 2008
Carolina wren (thyrothorus ludovianus)
yellow-bellied sapsucker (female) (very strange-looking bird, and only seen this one day)
American robin (male) (turdus migratoris)
June 21, 2008
yellow-bellied sapsucker (male) (also seen just this once)
American robin (female)
mourning dove (zenaida macroura)
June 21, 2008
American goldfinch (male) (beautiful; sadly I haven't seen him since)
common grackle (quizcalus quizcula)
American goldfinch (female) (carduelis tristis)
June 23, 2008
wood thrush (hylocichla mustelina)
eastern towhee
June 26, 2008
red-bellied woodpecker (both male and female; I'd been seeing them on an off since I first put up the feeder, but had trouble identifying them)
Monday, June 30, 2008
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