Birds in your garden
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Anonymous
| What types of birds visit your garden in the summer? |
Anonymous
| Ruby-crowned kinglets |
Anonymous
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If you plant it, they will come...
https://www.nps.gov/plants/pubs/Chesapeake/pdf/chesapeakenatives.pdf look for the bird icon |
Anonymous
Here is a guide to some of the local birds of Washington DC
Many of these birds are migratory and come back every year. |
Anonymous
| I've had several bright yellow goldfinches lately. |
Anonymous
| American Robins are now resident birds in DC. I have plenty of them in my garden trying to catch earth worms. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2014/01/31/robin-invasion-red-breasted-birds-no-longer-a-harbinger-of-spring/ |
Anonymous
| Wrens, robins, finches, cardinals, blue jays - they eat the pests. |
Anonymous
| The Smithsonian has some great resources on how to foster healthy urban habitats for birds http://www.gardens.si.edu/our-gardens/urban-bird-habitat.html |
Anonymous
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Hummingbirds, cowbirds, catbirds, red headed woodpecker, downy woodpecker, cardinals, blue jays, Carolina wrens, doves, goldfinches, housefinches, nuthatches, chickadees, robins, starlings, grackles, crows, pigeons-gah!, many types of sparrows, mockingbirds, ruby crowned kinglets, Northern flickers are regulars.
Birds I have seen very occasionally are red-winged blackbirds, a female tanager once, a rose-breasted grosbeak once, turkey vultures and pileated woodpeckers. I have hummingbird and regular bird feeders and a very bird-friendly garden. |
Anonymous
| One of my favorites are Northern Cardinals. They brighten up the day with their appearance and song. The males are particularly dashing. I have never seen a Scarlet Tanager, Would love to see one of those one day. |
Anonymous
| Robins and cardinals are frequent. The robins built nests but chose not great places so seem to have abandoned them. This year we have some woodpeckers. They sound like jackhammers in the morning. I watched one go after our fence post the other day. They can do some damage! |
Anonymous
| Tobins, cardinals, blue jays, finches, woodpeckers |
Anonymous
| Song sparrows, robins, cardinals, blue jays, grackles, and rice birds (I can't remember their proper name) |
Anonymous
I am jealous on the ruby crowned kinglets! Aren't they seasonal migrants? I have seen all of the birds on your list except that one and the red-headed woodpecker. I do get a lot of tufted titmice, and sometimes juncos. I also had a male rose-breasted grosbeak on my feeder once this year but haven't seen him again. On woodpecker -- do you mean red headed or red bellied? I have never seen the former in my yard but I get the latter all the time. http://tnwatchablewildlife.org/similarspeciesdetails.cfm?uid=12072515393780573 |
Anonymous
| The kinglets are seasonal, but have been coming regularly. And those are the red-bellied not red headed woodpeckers. I sometimes see towhees in spring. The bird variety has declined as several new developments have come up nearby. |