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Blues have been gone for 8wks :-(
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Posted by deedee1028 (My Page) on Sun, Aug 29, 10 at 12:32
| I have so missed these beautiful birds its sad to not even here there singing in the morning. I have noticed up the road a mile or so there is some blues sitting on the wire by the corn fields. Maybe because they planted beans instead of corn behind our house this yr. is why they left...but haven't seen to many birds not even TS only have hummers and I have around 15 or so and thats a first having that many hummers. I quess you can't have it all. LOL |
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RE: Blues have been gone for 8wks :-(
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| I'm going to be sad too when mine leave. I've been so lucky this season to have them on their third nesting. Just the sound of them brings a smile. I've also been lucky that during winter they come back in a flock and I have the honor of feeding them. The hummingbirds should be gone in about two weeks, and my tree swallows left a long time ago. But we all get to look forward to that exciting time of welcoming them back in the spring. |
RE: Blues have been gone for 8wks :-(
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| My Bluebirds had a very tough nesting year and disappeared for awhile, although I would occasionally see them on the Bluebird snag, eating some Elderberries, or using the bird bath. I missed them sorely, but got very absorbed with raising Monarch and Black swallowtail butterflies (which are almost gone, sniff, will miss them too). Lately a small Bluebird family has shown up again, at least 1 male with 3 females. The weather is cooling off and they come to eat the peanut butter suet. They usually stay around eating suet for the entire winter, at least they have for the past 4 winters. This area could be close to their northernmost range in the winter. |
RE: Blues have been gone for 8wks :-(
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| I've only had Bluebirds the past two winters. I fully expect them to show up again this year. While my adult couple appears to have left for now, I do have four hatch year Blues that are about three quarters of their way through their molt coming for mealworms. My black swallowtail cats appear to be only in their third instar, so I guess they will overwinter here too. Though, of course being in a chryslais by then, I won't see them until spring. |
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