[Douglbirds] Pine Siskins

[Hugh Kingery]

We certainly have a lot of Pine Siskins around our neighborhood. I'm not sure I could claim a gross, like Karen, but we surely have half a gross. They like sunflower chips and they like the niger mix. And they like a lot of weedy plants below the house. We have enjoyed this mob now for a month or so. 

Except for the siskins, a pair each of reliable Black-capped Chickadees and White-breasted Nuthatches, some obnoxious crows, and an occasional Mountain chickadee, scrub-jay, and Steller's Jay, we don't see as many birds at the feeders as during the summer. A Cooper's Hawk makes a pass occasionally -- I'm sure we miss a lot of his attempted depredations. 

We still have a couple of hummingbirds and a singing Plumbeous Vireo across the gully. Urling saw two Poorwills perched in the driveway last Friday night, but we haven't heard or seen any since then. A Canyon Wren chugs along every once in a while on the cliffs above the house. 

This morning I watched a kestrel diving rlentlessly at a crow perched in the top of a dead aspen. AFter 10-15 passes, the crow finally left the aspen and next thing the two chased each other all over the hillside.

Hugh Kingery
Franktown, Colorado

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