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down_home
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Jun 27, 2016

Little Birds

Not really pets.
This year, early, we had a little bird with gray chest and black head with a little black crest visit us.
He or she is still with us. It sits on the banister on rear porch and scans for bugs. Seems to be a doing good job as annoying bugs are down.
Doesn't seem to have a nest. As evening sets in he generally is sitting on the banister. I have gone on the porch, late, and flipped on thee lights and he was sitting on one of the fan blades.
Another one has joined him but more brown. They are not house sparrows.
he may e sitting elsewhere the last couple of days. Wife washed of the porch, and I haven't noticed him except in flying around.
Didn't get the Humming bird feeders out early enough. One flew up to where one of them was last year hovered flew of. Put one out but no takers so the little finches or whatever have taken up.
gotta get the Humming birds back though they do cut down on gnats and maybe the mosquitoes.
  • That sounds like it might be a black cap chickadee although I would be surprised to see one in the south during the summer.
  • My son has a bat (named Fred) that hangs from the rafters of his shop all winter, then warm weather arrives he leaves until next winter, did this for the last 3-4 years now.
  • I like Bats. We have some small chestnut colored bats with adorable little faces not much bigger than a quarter when all folded up and with thee young ones, we had visit once.
    I believe you may be right on chickadee based n appearance.
    They do have neat and tidy nest of small twigs on one of the fans.
    Yesterday morning I saw all these yellow and white moths. They looked like fuzzy bears with big eyes flying helter scelter. The two birds and the mths wer manuvering like jet fighters.he caught a yellow one and landed on the railing before flying to the nest.
    I haven't heard a peep from the nest but I'm half deaf.
  • Sounds like a phoebe, a type of flycatcher.. They keep the fly population down. Chickadees don't have a crest.
  • We have lots of resident barn swallows (30+), chimney swifts, purple martins, eastern bluebirds, and bats; but we still have a very healthy population of flying insects.