December 13, 2022

| Brown Creeper by Stacey Headey |

For the seventh season in a row, Mission FeederWatch and our sponsor Wild Birds Limitless are rewarding registered FeederWatchers with the prospect to win prizes. This 12 months, Celestron is becoming a member of the enjoyable and providing one pair of binoculars to every information entry contest winner as effectively. After getting into chicken counts (information) into the FeederWatch web site, individuals have the chance to share a narrative, reminiscence, or tip by clicking the “Enter to Win” button on the Rely Abstract web page. We randomly choose two winners per immediate. Our first Knowledge Entry contest immediate this season was:

Usually watching your feeder space provides you a higher likelihood at witnessing an unimaginable occasion! Inform us a few memorable second that occurred close to or at your feeders.

Congratulations to our winners, Lisa Meacham and Debi Blankenship!

Lisa shared:

I used to be thrilled to see a Brown Creeper on the latest Mission FeederWatch depend interval. It’s solely the third time I’ve ever seen one in my yard and the primary time since 2012. It hitched its method up my oak timber in its attribute trend, and it returned a number of occasions all through the day. What a deal with!

Whereas they largely eat bugs, Brown Creepers might go to feeder setups providing suet, peanut hearts, hulled sunflower seeds, and extra. You may even see them zigzagging upwards on massive, outdated tree trunks, foraging for meals. Questioning what meals will appeal to what birds to your yard? Take a look at Mission FeederWatch’s Frequent Feeder Birds Interactive to discover species’ meals preferences, feeder sort preferences, and extra.

Debi shared:

Final 12 months we had so many woodpeckers feeding their infants outdoors our window, and I used to be so excited to see three Pileated Woodpeckers again once more! The mother and father have fed their infants often the previous three years, and the infants return now, together with the mother and father. Now I’m ready for the Pink-headed Woodpeckers to return too!

You probably have useless or dying timber in your property, contemplate leaving them or leaving tall stumps whether it is protected to take action. Useless snags usually host a plethora of insect life, and will appeal to Pileated Woodpeckers (in addition to different cavity-nesting birds) as a spot to forage for bugs or excavate and construct their nests within the softening wooden. You may also appeal to birds to nest by putting in a nest field. Go to Cornell’s NestWatch web site to obtain free nest field building plans.

Because of everybody who participated and shared their tales – we want we might share your whole submissions! Learn the tales from previous winners on our weblog. Electronic mail feederwatch@cornell.edu with questions. Keep tuned for once we announce our subsequent information entry contest winners on January tenth, 2023.

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