Winter birds

Here on the eastern shore of Maryland (right side of Ches Bay) our juncos showed up about 3 wks ago. still not a ton though. All the rest of the species are pretty much yr round but numbers go up in winter. Not feeder birds, but Canada geese were at least a month late.

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The juncos are increasing in numbers here in S.E. Mich. I haven't seen the tree sparrows yet but have a nice flock of fox sparrows hanging around for the moment!

 

We have a few chickadees and nut hatches but not much of anything else yet. The geese are all over the plae this last week. I was by the lake in Lake City last Mon and ia bet there was a 1000 or more all over it. Huge flocks of ducks this year which iis something I have not seen in a long time. Lasy spring the chickadees would go in my wood shed if I left the door open and t hey would all most land on me to let me know the feeder was empty. I have had them land on my coat while hunting.. I use to take a slice of toat with me when I was hunting to feed to all the birds. I had one place in the swamp on mine that the bird would eat and there was a weasel that would also eat from it. It was so close that I could have almost touched its

 

I'm setting in my deer blind watching dozens of chickadees zip in and out eating sunflower seeds from my feeder.

 

I've only seen Snow Buntings 2 times, 1st in the UP in Oct....looked like a snow flurry went from 1 spot on the ground, rised up & landed again, I was "huh"....had to call a buddy who knew better, lol....2nd time here on the D river in late Nov....very cool stuff !....

 

We had a visitor this afternoon. A snow owl iped by th window and landed about 100 feet outside the window in a tree. It sat there for a long time and it had the tree
trunk between me and it