Which is your bird feeder: wildly popular or mildly popular?

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Are the birds eating up your grocery budget, or are they just fine?

There’s no right or wrong answer here. Just give us some sort of commentary on the subject of cardinal bird feeders and any other sorts of feeders you use.

You can comment on feeder location, the types of feeders you use, the cost of sunflower seeds and other food, the backyard pests that eat the feed, or whatever subject you like.

Give us you commentry so we know what is going on in the backyard bird feeding world.

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Help me identify a bird call I heard?

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I just heard it not long ago, around 5 in the morning. I’ve heard the call before, and my memory seems to be connecting it with an owl I once saw… though, I can’t find any lists of owls in my area to search for sound clips, so it’s difficult. :/

I live in a fair sized industrial city, in Southern Ontario… so it’s not often I see more than house wrens, starlings, blue jays, mourning doves, pigeons, cardinals, sea gulls and crows. Our wildlife is very limited.

Anyway, it’s still very dark and the morning chorus hasn’t been sounding for long. Started up shortly after I heard this call. I want to say the bird has a good chance of being nocturnal, but really… I don’t know enough to make such assumptions.

I’m going to try to describe this in as much detail as possible.

The call would last for about 6 seconds, pause for closer to 10, then it would sound again.
The sound it would make was somewhere between a very repetitive gentle hoot and a coo.
It repeated quickly, maybe 4 times per second, no pause between the sounds.
The pitch was a little bit higher than a mourning dove’s.
The volume was pretty low. Very eerie. I’m not sure if the bird was distant, or if it was just soft.
If my memory serves me right, then the other times in the past that I heard the call would have been between 9 PM and Midnight.

That’s… about all I can give you.

Any ideas whatsoever will help. Maybe it’s not an owl at all? I’ll be looking up every suggestion to try and confirm.

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There is a cardinal nest in my Burning Bush,only about 5 feet from the ground.Don't birds usually build …

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…their nests up higher than that?It is in a high traffic area near the driveway and close to my house.I was surprised to find it there–would have thought they’d want a more remote location as well.Also,how long will it take until the 4 eggs hatch?

Pet Names?

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I’m getting a Chihuahua in about three weeks, She’s Black, with brown markings. She’ll be very tiny, she’s a teacup Chihuahua. What is something cute, original, and fitting that I could name her? Shes very perky and energetic…She’s adorable!!

Can someone tell me what my dream is all about?

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I don’t know where to post this, sorry.

I had a dream last night, there was a red looking slug about 3-4" long under one of our tomatoes – in the house. They are slugs but red. I also dream of a red cardinal bird flying over my head, which I caught with a thong and I heard it crunch, but I didn’t kill it. . There were two more red slugs under a basket of my tomatoes, they just came out from under, and they were much larger than 4".

What do they mean?

Am I A Very Detailed Writer – Birds?

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There are no explanations for what happened to me.
I still remember flapping my wings around a trunk with old spider webs and little dried twigs, trying to find as many bugs to chew on. When that little pale green fly jumped to my wet black eye, I started flapping my eyelids instead. I was on the ground already, and when I smelled a worm right next to me, my wings swung up and plunked up that yummy sucker. The chewy trembling worm was already in my throat when a swarm of robins and cardinals whispered as they flew, “Run!”
My head rolled as they flew across the pines. That could only mean one thing. The hunters were near.
But I was so stupid. The smell of the wet moss and worms seduced me. I gobbled up more and more. They weren’t easy to get during the snow season, and now that they were around me as if I was in a paradise, so I took the delicious challenge.
I wasn’t a fat bird, but I was a little wild when it came to eating. Its not that mom didn’t feed me that much. But when food is all around you, it is impossible to let go off. A meadowlark living next to my pine tree was so fat because he said that in Seattle, bread crumbs are littered almost everywhere.
I wished to go to the big city, but at the same time, I didn’t want to. A pale brown robin tried scaring everyone about the civilized.
“Don’t believe him, Ena.” Née told me.
My dreams to eat the crumbs knew they weren’t true, but there was something with the city that made me believe that robin (I didn’t even know his name).
Bushes rustled, dirt shook, logs rolled, and powering guns clicked. I spit out the wiggling small, soft pink worm and chirped to fly out.

Crazy Wild Cardinal?

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We live in upstate NY. There is this wild cardinal who every single day, slams into one of our regular windows (not a sliding glass door, just a regular window). He/She flies into the lilac bush right outside the window and we see him flutter around a bit, then start slamming into it over and over. We thought he might see his reflection, but hes hitting the screen on the outside of the lower window, and he does this ONLY to this one window (not the one next to it, or any other windows).

We do have a lovebird and a parakeet in a cage together inside this room but they dont make much noise and i dont even think he can see them from where he hits (the other window has a much better view of our birds from the outside of our house).

He comes and goes all day. Just now i heard him singing loudly and slamming into it, then took off.

Please: ANY CLUE WHATTT is going on here????

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If you could have any Pet of your choosing…..?

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…………what would it be?

I’d bag a couple of perky Tits myself.
T1ts for the record! Damn Yahoo and their bleepingggggggg

Cardinal love 5/19/11

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For me, one of the best things about the spring season is being able to catch a special moment in nature, in this case courtship feeding between a pair of Northern Cardinals.

Decline in the amount of birds in garden?

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I live in Florida on the east coast and have noticed a dramatic decline in the amount of birds that visit my garden. Has anyone else noticed this? I used to get loads of grackles, blue jays and cardinals but at the moment all I get is mourning doves. Does anyone know why this is? I’ve never had this before in the 12 years I’ve lived here, it’s very disturbing. (I’m still putting the nuts/feed out for them but it’s always eaten by the morning time by the raccoons).

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