Feeder Birds You Can Attract To Your Winter Backyard | North America

[@LesleytheBirdNerd]

Hi everybody. I wanted to ask for a small favor. It seems that this video is not performing well compared to my last few uploads. I was wondering IF YOU ENJOYED the video could I get a little help by sharing it with your friends to get it out there. For some reason, KZbin will bury some of my videos during the first hours of uploading. It's at this time that it is most crucial for any of my videos to be seen. If they are not doing even close to well during this time KZbin is thinking people are not enjoying it and will not pick up my content or promote it, burying it even further. It is a very complicated process that can sometimes have devastating effects. Just a little info on each video I make: Each one can take on average 75-100 hours to make all in under one week. This includes research and writing, building a shoot list, sorting through 100s of videos, and in the case of this video also collaborating with other individuals through many forms of communication and organization, voice-over narration, editing the video together, creating an eye-catching thumbnail (which surprisingly sometimes can take a full day), title, and description and credits all while hopefully creating a high-quality viewing experience for the fellow birders that have chosen to follow me. I appreciate each and every one of your support. Thank you so much ~Lesley

[@lesliemoiseauthor]

Happy to share!

[@cindypowers4993]

Your videos are informative, educational, and FUN! They done with care, and presented beautifully. Let's all do what we can for Lesley and the channel!👍🐦👍🐦💙

[@cynthianorman44]

Lesley, I deeply appreciate this video. Lately, I have been busy. However, as soon as I witnessed this video was available I immediately watched/listened to this entire video, it is wonderful (as all of your videos are). And, I truly appreciate all that you do in creating them (I love all birds & all animals). I do have a specific question regarding this video. It is concerning the "very large Pileated Woodpecker," that was eating on a platform. This particular Pileated Woodpecker seemed to have its' left or right foot curled upward. Is this a standard method at eating? Or, do you think that particular Pileated Woodpecker eating on the platform was injured? Lesley, I know you are busy. And, as mentioned, I love all birds and all animals. I feed our wild birds every day. P.S. This video reminded me of how much I enjoy all your bird videos. They are ALL superbly informative, educated, interesting and gorgeously filmed. Greatly Appreciated, Cynthia

[@Terri_Stauffer]

Had no idea about the crucial first few hours of KZbin might bury, all about the algorithm. I tend to watch in the evening, get notified in morning usually. I will start click video and like it (cause of course all your videos are awesome) when I get notification and then rewatch later when I have time.

[@LesleytheBirdNerd]

@@Terri_Stauffer Thank you Terri much appreciated. Glad you enjoy my videos

[@LesleytheBirdNerd]

I've been getting questions about if I have merchandise available? well, yes I do. Here are the links for anyone that may be interested. www.bonfire.com/store/lesleythebirdnerd www.lesleythebirdnerd.com/ Thank you everyone for watching and support.

[@mc12358]

1:09 some extra info. Black-capped Chickadees do have a limited range in the southeast, since elevations in the 4000-6000' range along the Parkway have ecosystems mirroring the boreal forests of Canada. At the lower elevations within this range, Carolina Chickadees are known to hybridize with Black-capped, and the two species are known to mimic each others' songs. The Black-capped Chickadee dominates and is pure bred in this range only in the highest elevations of 5000+ ft. Thanks for the video Leslie, a Baltimore Oriole migrating through my area stopped at one of my Hummingbird feeders for a snack yesterday afternoon. It's awesome out there.

[@gettingold59]

On a cold February morning you sure know how to cheer up a person. As always a great video. You are the very best

[@LesleytheBirdNerd]

Thanks Allan, glad you liked it

[@micahbirdlover8152]

@@LesleytheBirdNerd yeah I'm finally watching it 😀

[@micahbirdlover8152]

@@LesleytheBirdNerd I love it 🥰

[@micahbirdlover8152]

@@LesleytheBirdNerd Birds to amazing ☺️ things to survive

[@micahbirdlover8152]

@@LesleytheBirdNerd great 👍 video

[@elizabethanne8729]

We have nuthatches, woodpeckers of all varieties, juncos, cardinals, blue jays, chickadees, doves, titmice, wrens, but my favorite are our resident murder of crows. They come to my yard every day. There were seven, and someone has recently joined making eight. One of them is missing a foot so we call them Stumpy. Stumpy gets on just fine however and it is so wonderful to see them waddling about in the snow looking for all the scraps and seeds that I leave them. ❤️ I have a “meat” station at one edge of the woods, and closer to my house I have seed stations. And the binoculars are always right by my kitchen window.

[@hickory572]

To me crows by far are the smartest birds. If one should be killed while sitting on a tree none of the rest will ever return to that tree. They are a joy to watch.

[@BrittanyS143]

I have 2 that come daily!! I have put out aton of food and had 2 flocks come and eat but the bigger black flock they all sit on a transformer wire 6miles from me lol. And the other flock about 800 or more flew in and I seen them on my main road coming home and that flock is a small bird. I was sitting in my car and that flock came in and swooped to one yard my neighbors next to me. They did a wave like motion over my car I was sitting In lol it was the coolest thing to see ever!!!!they made a wave over my car from my neighbors lawn over to mine lol. When I'm driving down the side street to get to my drive way the blue Jay's just start talking so loud and it will be one talking and than you hear a ton more. They get excited when I pull into the driveway lol.

[@susana.954]

My favorite winter birds are by far cardinals and Blue Jays. They have such colorful plumage that they make the cold, dark winter days feel warmer and brighter. I love Goldfinches too, but I only see them in late summer when they come to feast on my coneflowers and zinnias. I have a platform feeder and a hopper style feeder (the "finch feeder"). Besides for swarms of House Sparrows and Mourning Doves, I am lucky to have White-breasted Nuthatches, Carolina Wrens, House finches, juncos, white throats, song sparrows, and sometimes a Red-bellied Woodpecker. Thank you for putting together another beautiful and enjoyable video, Lesley!

[@joelmiller2532]

My wife and I have a very vibrant, thriving backyard bird "sanctuary"! Cardinals, Blue Jays, Juncos, Titmice, 3 different woodpeckers, Chickadees, Mourning Doves, Sparrows, Finches all love their corner of the yard where peanuts in the shell, crushed sunflower seeds, black oil s.f. seeds, safflower, nyjer and suet are on the menu. Chatty and always entertaining, we love our backyard bird gang!!

[@WalkScripture]

So far our feeder birds this year are the typical chickadees, white and red breasted nuthatches, juncos, blue Jays, tufted titmouse, downy and hairy woodpeckers, and a cardinal couple. We’re in SW New Hampshire and can only put feeders out when the bears are hibernating

[@Talonflamez]

One cardinal couple sounds appropriate, because they get so aggressive with other cardinals.

[@avonavians2860]

We live in northern New Hampshire, and we get all of those, except we have not yet seen any red-breasted nuthatches. Tufted titmice are rare up here, so I'm always excited to see them!

[@josephbailey4463]

Hey Lesley, It’s great to see so many of our buddies featured together. I would have added the house finch. They usually show up in flocks in the winter and their bright colors are so welcome in an otherwise dreary landscape.

[@MrTwitch62]

My wife loves feeding the house finch and was surprised how quickly word got around and what was a few is now a flock 😂

[@marceld8961]

Mourning doves, Cardinals, Blue Jays, Black Capped Chickadees, Downy Woodpeckers, American Goldfinches, White Breasted Nuthatches, Red Bellied Woodpeckers, European Starlings, American Robins, House Finches, Northern Flickers, and of course House Sparrows are my childhood birds.

[@mairwaugus5203]

Birding does make me happy😊

[@greatalaska6429]

Watching your vids has inspired me. Yesterday I had around 300 red polls off the front porch in our mayday tree, fighting over our 3 feeders. I was shoveling snow and decided to sit on the steps next to the feeder, when a couple birds decided my hat brim would make a good perch. We even had 4 moose come in one pack and the bull moose was eating the seed the birds had dropped.

[@cynthianorman44]

Using your hat brim as a perch, this really made me chuckle....thank you🙃😁

[@herb2968]

thanks Leslie, for the nice video. we have a busy winter hopper feeder and suet station. we see quite a variety..bluejays, cardinals, carolina wrens, downy woodpeckers, dark eyed juncos, tufted titmouse, chickadees, white breasted nuthatch, doves (to pick up the ground scraps with the juncos)....we love our cardinal pair and the nuthatch is one of my favorites. i love watching them creep, inverted, up and down the tree trunks, They're so polite it seems, they take one seed at at a time, fly to a nearby branch to open/eat it, before coming back for another! we also have a large pileated working on an old sassafrass trunk in our woods but he does not visit our feeder. i see and hear him each morning, lately. glory to God who made these beautiful birds.

[@minniepalmer8965]

There are three chickadees at the bird feeder as I am watching this video.😀 Between your stunning photos and beautiful narration, this was a pleasure to watch. Thank you! Love all the feeder birds so much!😀🐦

[@cindydufala7646]

I love your videos, Lesley. And i love the comments from viewers from everywhere. We all share the earth. Peace ✌🕊🦅to all.

[@RYANandMICHELLEchannel]

Great video! Very informative and beautiful capturing the birds and their behavior

[@LesleytheBirdNerd]

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks Ryan

[@micahbirdlover8152]

@@LesleytheBirdNerd great video 👍

[@hankthebirdman]

Tufted Titmice are so CUTE!!! Would love to see one!

[@LesleytheBirdNerd]

Me too!

[@stormwatcher59]

I get them in central Pennsylvania...yes, they are so cute!!

[@micahbirdlover8152]

@@stormwatcher59 really you saw some 😱

[@avonavians2860]

I was so excited when I saw my first titmouse in northern New Hampshire. They were very common in Connecticut and I took them for granted when they showed up. They are very rare here, though.

[@jamesferguson8938]

Very worthwhile and educational. Thanks, Lesley

[@LesleytheBirdNerd]

Glad you liked it. Thank you

[@vandamner]

I have the same cast of characters everyday this winter 30-50 redpolls and gold finches and a couple of cardinals, some chickadees and 1 junco. Also 3-4 blue jays some American tree sparrows. Enjoy them all and have made this cold winter in northern Ontario more bearable. Keep doing what you do. Thank you.

[@Terri_Stauffer]

Favorite visitor hands down to feeder is Pileated Woodpecker cause he comes so seldom and is a sight to see trying to eat from suet or feeders. He is more often seen on the fallen trees or digging out cavities getting insects in the trees. But I love them all chickadees, juncos,Titmouse, nuthatch blue jays, cardinals, downy woodpecker, red bellied woodpecker, and mourning dove are all daily visitors. Then I have American goldfinch, white throated sparrow, and red breasted grosbeak, a long with a few unidentified that visit on occasion. But the interaction between Papa cardinal and the blue jay is a sight to watch. Papa cardinal will go after bluejay if he gets too close and if his little warning doesn’t work they go aerial to battle and blue jay flies away. I wish I had video as it’s a sight to see, my friend could not believe it when she witnessed it.

[@brendapaul4383]

My favorite is the black capped chickadees. They are cute, tough, and one will land on the container that I bring food out with. I put seed on the ground here as well as the feeders, most of the birds like it especially the mourning doves and dark eyed Juncos.

[@mitchmatthews6713]

You are the best, Lesley!

[@LesleytheBirdNerd]

Awe, thanks

[@exuberant8385]

🙋 We have in Ohio Juncos, nut hatches, Cardinals, tufted titmouses, red bellied woodpecker, downy woodpecker, Northern flickers, song sparrow, lots of robins. The birds make their rounds so we don't see them all the time. I have put out high energy suet, sprinkled peanuts, and raisins on the ground. Only 1 Junco has discovered the peanuts and raisins on the cement of the patio. I put the suet in the crevice of trees. I watched the red bellied woodpecker fill a hole in a tree with his peanuts he'd found. When that was full he flew off toward our woods to hide a peanut else where. Our cottontail rabbit is leaving prints in the snow every where. 😀

[@cynthianorman44]

Wonderful❤️.

[@samueldasnher3482]

Love You Lesley, Your Sharing Different Bird Updates are Always The Best Interactive & Informative Sites I Love To Watch . Not That My Own Bird knowledge Is Lacking I Still Love watching Your Update Videos!

[@LesleytheBirdNerd]

Glad you like them, Thank you

[@lesliemoiseauthor]

Very thorough. Thank you! Tufted titmice . . . today they're my favorite! I shared your video.

[@Shaden0040]

Hi Lesley. You mentioned the white throated sparrow feeding alongside the JuncoI was wondering about another favorite sparrow of mine that we see every year all year long in New England. Song Sparrows with their one spot onthe breast. They have such sweet mournful songs.

[@--SHEPHERD-OF-MOTHER-EARTH--]

Your Sparrows are everywhere on my patio just like last season! they Takin Over LOL or as I call them sparrows Arrows or velociraptor! As they sing O Canada! 🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦

[@AniFam]

They all still look pretty and colorful on snowy days~ Thank you for sharing this video~🤗

[@canadiankabingurl9782]

Your videos are appreciated. ☺ 👍 Beautiful content, always.

[@AndyFromBeaverton]

Happy to see you covering the hummers and not covering starlings.

[@mariasaha8303]

I love my clear plastic feeder that I attached on my window. I attach my security camera to the other side and catch the action on video.

[@kristeetrisler4942]

For the first time in the 6 years I have fed the birds. At least 2 dozen gold finches stayed. The Niger seed is gone in no time. I still am amazed that a pair of boreal chickadees have stayed and had a brood. They and my blacked capped chickadees seem to get along well.

[@thegunsngloryshow2923]

When the hamburger pan cools, I scrape off the fat and leave it in the snow. The Chickadees love it.

[@mairwaugus5203]

Will have to try, thanks.

[@mysideofthemountain5563]

Hey Leslie..............your videos are awesome! Northern BC here, I love my grey jays above all else, my little forest buddies! I get a lot of pine grosbeaks, redpolls, chickadees (black capped, mountain and a boreal) and three woodpeckers, hairy, downy and the pileated. I have seen one red breasted nuthatch but it looked different than the ones you showed. This is my first year ever feeding or paying attention to the birds and it brings me a ton of happiness, that's because of your videos, thanks for the hobby! oh, i use black oil sunflower seeds and unsalted shelled peanuts.

[@ArleneDKatz]

Lesley!❤️. I now call them “ my jays” although everyone tosses peanuts in the air for them. And it’s all your fault. 🤣. Thank you. 😍🥰 I made it my mission to convince them to trust us

[@LesleytheBirdNerd]

lol glad to hear

[@gourdsbyjm]

Yes to all of the above except the western birds. I have them all at one time or another and they each have their very own attraction for me.

[@JamesCasatelli]

I finally got my first woodpecker (a male downy) at the suet feeder in my yard. I live in NYC, so I was very excited. I know we have them here, but usually only see them in the parks.

[@coldspring624]

I like all that visit my feeders. The greater the variety the better. One thing that is rarely touched on is the type of feed and feeder location in relation to each other. Over the years I have come to realize that it can really increase the variety and frequency of certain birds to my feeders. One of my favorite feeders for Black caps is a coconut shell with a 3 inch hole hung in the branches of trees filled with oil seed. They love them and treat them like their own little stash area.

[@setapart6937]

The most interesting birds I’ve had visit my yard this winter are Brown Creepers and a male Ring-necked Pheasant. The Brown Creepers love the large mealworm suet cake that I have out and I’ll often see the Pheasant foraging for seed under the feeders.

[@LesleytheBirdNerd]

Love the Brown Creepers. Pretty rare bird in my neck of the woods though

[@andrewlafrance7727]

Wonderful video!! Im a big fan of the “head bangers”! Love the birds! And you videos! Thank you!!!!

[@rocketreindeer]

Hey Lesley, I'm Indigenous from B.C. and even before I knew anything about my culture, I always found something spiritual about woodpeckers. Being visited by one always felt like being visited by a strange powerful creature like a scene in a Narnia book. A flicker visited me today and it made me feel ... for lack of a better word... blessed and happy. Have a good week!

[@theresewillis5584]

This is great information! Thanks!

[@gusthebrahman1066]

I'm located in eastern PA, I get all of the typical visitors and love all of them equally. However, I have a female Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker and a Brown Creeper who come by daily for my homemade suet. They may be my favorite. I have a pair of Pileated's that continue to give me "fly-by's", some day they'll stop in for a snack (I hope). I also had a Chickadee take half a peanut from my hand, while I was filling feeders. SO COOL! Thanks for another informative video Lesley.

[@DSesignD]

New to birding. This year I realized the Winter and Spring birding was better than Summer. Last winter I had a veritable horde of gold finches, along with an elusive Carolina Wren and the Juncos, who, at first only stuck to the ground, but by spring were roosting on the feeders.

[@sarahluchies1076]

You can't forget about the Northern Flicker and the Winter Wren further north. They are two of my favorites. Though the flicker isn't much of a feeder bird most of the year.

[@LesleytheBirdNerd]

Love the Northern Flicker

[@brinkleybear2382]

Great Video. In mid-Michigan we have most of the birds that you featured in your video. We feed black sunflower seeds, shelled peanut halves, sunflower meats and whole shell corn. We keep the feeders filled and are sure to toss some of the seed on the ground for the ground feeders.The best part of bird feeding is what the experience does for the feeder. One wakes up to frigid cold temperatures in the dead of winter, nothing good on the news, there is nothing more civilized than watching the birds outside, while drinking hot coffee, as the snow falls from the comfort of the kitchen table. I love all the birds, but Chickadees and Nuthatches are always fun to see.

[@shayzj]

Virginia....got lucky today and had Northern Flicker beating up the backyard, and a brown creeper and brown thrasher along with all the others in this video. Great video by the way

[@VanessaG1229]

I had an American tree sparrow show up at my feeders a few days ago. It was a first for me, and rather exciting.

[@benfranklinification]

I’m a man of simple pleasure s . Feeding my winter feathered friends is one of my favorites. Great subject matter and excellent presentations. Thanks.

[@LesleytheBirdNerd]

Thank you Timothy glad you enjoyed

[@cindypowers4993]

Enjoyed your video!🐦

[@LesleytheBirdNerd]

Thank you

[@micahbirdlover8152]

@@LesleytheBirdNerd I like the geese in winter 😊

[@jammcc176]

We have four active feeders this winter: a tube feeder with hulled sunflower seeds and peanuts; a nyjer feeder; a tray feeder with primarily safflower seed, supplemented with cracked corn when I am feeling charitable to the squirrels (not often); and a suet feeder. This season we have attracted nearly two dozen species. I am particularly enjoying a group of white-throated sparrows (who eat at all the feeders) and a solitary golden-crowned kinglet who is absolutely fearless and will dine even if I am standing next to the feeder. And today for the first time, we had a bluebird come to the buffet.

[@mikewysko2268]

Thanks to Lesleys informative videos I am now enjoying the many colorful birds of Indiana visiting our backyard feeder. Thanks to the many helpful suggestions I only feed in the winter, I moved the feeders away from the house to prevent window strikes and to make it harder for the cats to sneak up on the birds. I have also improved the quality of the bird feed. I now disinfect the feeders to prevent the spread of disease . Thanks Lesley.

[@LesleytheBirdNerd]

That's great to hear Mile best of luck to you

[@goggleuser12]

Hi Mike, I'm from IN, too. Cass Co. Have you had any pileated woodpeckers yet?

[@mikewysko2268]

@@goggleuser12 YES! Rare visitors with beautiful colors. 🐦 🦜

[@vera214T]

The photography was beautiful. Also full of information. Thank you.

[@LesleytheBirdNerd]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@bmeetze]

Very entertaining and educational!! Birds are such a wonderful creation!

[@earnestbass4043]

Such a nice channel. Peaceful, beautiful, and great information!

[@spartan7911]

Keep your videos coming Leslie!

[@wjm9604]

My favorite is the eastern bluebird so I'm in the process of growing a mealworm farm in tote containers. Already have about 200 darkling beetles. I heard that females could lay a few hundred eggs so hopefully by spring there will be plenty. I also enjoy feeding peanuts to the blue jays on the mini picnic table I made (they leave the strings behind here too in Michigan) and safflower/black oil seeds to the northern cardinals. I like feeding and hearing the R2D2 nuthatches also :)

[@LesleytheBirdNerd]

Something about them peanut strings lol R2D2 Nuthatches ha

[@Terri_Stauffer]

Love “R2D2” nuthatches 🤣😂.

[@lynncavallari6475]

I got into feeding and watch birds because I had 2 older brothers who always said you can't play your a "girl"!! SO I learned to do what they did but "better". I also was the only one who ever got into this one tree in playground that they never did !! :D

[@ellietobe]

Yes, we get scads of birds during the winter, especially when it snows. After a snow the seeds that many of them would ordinarily scavenge for are covered with that snow. If the snow melts off the branches some of the seed will be uncovered but a lot of their food sources are unavailable. Right now we are being inundated with birds. The Chickadees, Tufted Titmouse, Nuthatch and Mourning Doves, Cardinals and many kinds of woodpeckers are always regulars but during the winter it seems that they go get their cousins and many other species of birds to come enjoy the offerings at the feeders. The snow and ice has been covering everything for quite a while so I imagine that food sources are getting quite thin. Having to fill the feeders twice a day.

[@birdman5223]

Outstanding content Leslie👍🏻👍🏻👏🏼

[@alanduff2205]

Just found your channel. Have been watching a lot of videos. Enjoy the ones on my favorite birds, woodpeckers, chickadees and goldfinches. All are so well done and cause me to look out to see what is at my feeder.

[@anniepierce4308]

I’m so lucky I have most of the birds you mentioned in your video. I can’t say which one is my favorite, they all are! It’s funny I make sure the birds get fed every morning before my own breakfast. Again, thank you for another great video. 😎

[@corniss]

I really enjoy tgese videos. So informative and lesley has such a soothing voice. Perfect for bird videos. I make p butter suet with lard and sunflower seeds, oats, wheat flour and corn meal. They love it.

[@charlesabar9978]

Love your videos. Enjoyable and educational

[@Incrediblestorm92]

Fantastic!😄Bluebirds will come to your feeder if you get them mealworms and some heated water. They love a little drink before breakfast or lunch. I'm trying to get my Bluejays back, as we had to take feeders down last summer in Indiana. Winter is the perfect time, as they tend to look further for food after it snows. In Indiana, if there is snow, the first visitor at the feeder will always be a Cardinal. They frequently come before sunrise even.

[@LesleytheBirdNerd]

Hi Greg Thanks for stopping by

[@ginafriend1690]

Hi and thank you, Lesley. Yes indeed a wonderful time to see these birds in the wintertime, to warm up the spirits! Lovely video. It's much like watching my own feeders 🥰

[@bedazzled64]

I have a red bellied woodpecker that will come down within 4 ft of me to grab a peanut in the shell that I lay down on my fence post. It's just wonderful to be that close! He sees me put it out and comes down right away!

[@kentross1134]

Great video! The tufted titmouse actually comes to my mom's feeder in southern New Brunswick, Canada fairly regularly now.

[@christines.1546]

I think my favorite bird that I only see in the cold months is the Evening Grosbeak. I love when they come in in a big flock(15-20 of them!!) and mingle with the blue jays.

[@wlieu12]

I only hear Carolina wrens' song during the summer. But in winter, they make hourly prolong stays at the suet feeders, as well as exploring all the seed feeders for peanut shards, which they scamper off with after the suet. They are relatively fearless, inquisitive, methodical and seemingly very intelligent.

[@mikedobbs3418]

Wonderful video as always! I love all the Juncos and White-Throated Sparrows digging around in the snow on the ground. But my favorite by far is the brilliant red Cardinal against the snowy backdrop.

[@JA51711]

Great video. There are sightings at feeders of snow buntings and varied thrushes in NJ!

[@jmbrendan53]

Hi Lesley form Maple Shade NJ... I think your videos are great and are my lifeline to Spring n Summer!! My favorite seasons! I subscribe.... like and have the notification turned on! Know that you are amazing and truly appreciated in my eyes and Im sure many many others! Thank you very much! :o) Jack

[@David-pw3ue]

Thank you for the Advice!

[@LesleytheBirdNerd]

Glad it was helpful!

[@j1xcalibur]

Blue jays are alotta fun but my fave is cardinals all year round. They are very loving and easy to appreciate. Great pics and excellent editing👍👍

[@LesleytheBirdNerd]

Thank you

[@kforest2745]

I’ll be back to watch this nearly out of data right now, thank you Lesley

[@jeanhowden3519]

One of my favorite to watch in northern Saskatchewan canada, is the evening and pine grossbeak. We also feed red poles, chickadees, woodpeckers, blue jays, whiskey jacks, junkos,

[@bassangler73]

I am partial to the blue jay and cardinals but I have a bird farm of several breeds in my backyard..I keep a small brush pile in my backyard which they seem to love and plenty of black oil sunflower seeds out...Good video!

[@micahbirdlover8152]

i like your PFP 😊

[@nicksweeney5176]

7:39 Honkin' for Canadian freedom!!🐦👍🏻 #CanadiansRise 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

[@KIKIMUTAQIN]

Beautiful bird..🙏🙏👍👍❤❤🇮🇩🇮🇩

[@timd8912]

Thank you....

[@cathydietz9621]

Loved this video!!! ❤️

[@samueldasnher3482]

Living a Majority Of My life In The Wisconsin Area, Then 11 years of Living In AZ (Too Many BROWN & Non-Colored Species There, But Loved The Harris' Hawk's And G.H.Owls. And The Last 10 Yrs, I've Lived In AR. I've Come To Have Many Favorite Backyard Species Aforementioned! Not So With The Steller's & Scrub Jays Which I'd Love To Have a Chance To One See & Behold! Overall, B.O.P Are Still My Favorite To Spend Keeping Track Of On Road Trips Or Long Drive Visits To Dr Appt's Which End Up Being Over 3 Hours Away From Home Town, Highest Count I've Seen Red-tailed Hawks To Date on One 6 ( That's To And Back From) Hour Drive To A DR. Office Appt. To Date Ever, Thus Far Was 37 On One Day's Trip. ( My Record Before That Was 19 In a Single Day Trip). Two Yrs Later, I Broke That Record With 29 Total, And Today It Now Still Stands At 37! Good Hawk Watching Day That Day Cause I Also Saw 2 Fully Adult Am. Bald Eagles & 4 Trumpeter Swans As Well. :'-D, Anyways , My Favorite Winter BY Feeder Bird Today is A Draw Between The Spotted Towhee And The Pileated Woodpecker! Though, I Love All the Winter Feeder Birds. Also, I'm Glad To Now Live In A State With BIrd's Of Color Again, Unlike AZ.Where Almost All The Birds Are Brown Or Tan! Roadrunners And Gambel's Quail Being Favorites When I Lived There. The Cactus Wrens Were The Characters Of That State, I'll Tell You!

[@blueocean21042]

So I was watching one of your older videos from 2018 called “birds of the winter north” we live in Lyme, Connecticut . I started feeding our backyard birds back in 2017 when I bought my house, suffice to say I suppose I just grew up always surrounded by nature. My parents fed the birds as long ago as I can remember, my dad was a nature photographer in his spare time. Anyway getting to my point. The past month or so I had been observing a rather large flock of birds that I had never seen before, they mostly seemed to feed on the ground and a few would eat from the hanging feeders. I looked and looked on different bird apps to try and identify these birds with no such luck. They look similar to a Fox sparrow but bigger, I believe I finally saw one on your video from 2018. I think they might be Red Poles however I am not 100% positive.

[@amywoodson1623]

We get almost all of these and more. We love it!

[@TheOvenbirder]

Thanks for the fun informative video! This winter I started using sunflower hearts which has so far paid off tremendously. Activity has been up from previous years. Goldfinches as Pine Siskins have taken a liking to this treat in particular. I put it in a wire mesh tube feeder. They’ve largely been ignoring the thistle I put out. Also, I’d add the pretty little American Tree Sparrow to the list of enjoyable winter feeder birds.

[@cfjruth]

Great video! I'm lucky enough to get most of those birds visiting my backyard here in Maryland, almost every one you mentioned that is resident in this area, plus a few more, such as the hermit thrush and American Robin. The latter doesn't eat at feeders, but loves getting a drink from my bird bath and scouting the yard for some worms or insects.

[@EmbraceTheJourney]

always enjoy your video's. The Bushtits come in droves as do the pinesiskins. They certainly provide us with lots of entertainment. We have three Anna's that visit us multiple times daily. They must recognize me as they come right up to me when I go out and they fly just inches from my face. Olympia, Washington

[@LesleytheBirdNerd]

Thanks 👍

[@hickory572]

10th year in a row i have been able to keep my blue birds over winter. 2nd time in my 40 years of feeding i have had red poles. My favorite to see cardinal my favorite to feed chick-a- dee dee dee

[@steveevans7188]

Lol I like to watch the Jay's and a woodpecker jostling around for nut & berry blend I put in a hanging platform feeder.

[@terryivey4363]

My favorite picture I got in my backyard was of a yellow bellied sapsucker at the peanut bowl.

[@lindastapleton2324]

Love the nuthatch! So fun to watch!

[@johntbd]

The Bushtit is my favorite. I call them Punks. They come storming in and take over for 10 min or so. The other day I called them from the feeder with a bird app. They came storming to me and flitted about for a minute or two. Lovely video.

[@carolynandreasen240]

It’s hard for me to pick a favorite but I love Carolina wrens. I also had two chickadees take a split peanut from my hand this week!!!

[@Starclimber]

During our occasional snowy cold snaps here on the 'Wet Coast' of Southwestern BC, I sometimes see varied thrushes enjoying the bounty I toss under the hedge for easy access. There's some 'mini-murders' (family units, actually) of crows I visit on my daily walks, who know me well and trust me to a point when I come bearing black oil sunflower seeds. I get on well with a certain red-winged blackbird too, who sings to me so I know he's there, and I whistle and 'chip' at him. Sort of an 'extended backyard feeder', I am. :)

[@Axess-sv8nq]

On Thursday of last week, I was headed out to replenish my stock of regional (Northeast) bird seed. I heard some finch song in the trees. So, I figured they were looking for food. I bought a big Nyjer sock and cleaned + refilled the smaller one. The next day there were about 10 or so Goldfinches on the socks and on the table I also put seed on. On Saturday, there were nearly 100 GOLDFINCHES! I have NEVER seen that many in one place. I already had to refill both socks - large and small in just a few days! Maybe some will stay on the property? They are here every day eating TONS of Nyjer seed! I refilled the big and small socks Sunday morning and they're both 1/3 empty already!!

[@kRis-rn6so]

Old fashioned Quaker oatmeal is the food I can afford. I sprinkle it in my deck tree containers for brunch.

[@oldenslo4141]

One of my favorite birds is the Oak Titmouse. He is an active guy and will pick up the small shelled peanuts the Scrub Jays leave when flying away with a larger peanut. "Barney" waits and then sneaks in, the peanut is about as big as he is and flys into the oak tree. Recently I spotted a Merlin heading toward a Ring Neck Dove but missed it. The Merlin apparently has been working around here as there is evidence of feathers everywhere and we suspected a cat but there was no carcass.

[@outdoorztime2923]

Nice video (as always). I would like to see the Cedar Waxwings visit our yard here in North Central Arkansas. I have been planting accordingly. The work should pay off in a few years - we'll see...