I picked the wrong day to leave my camera at the office–there are 350 Red-Winged Blackbirds in my backyard at this very moment. I have a drip running in my bird bath so it isn’t frozen. Remember to break the ice in your bath and feed your birds.
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Sparrows and cardinals at my feeder this morning in eastern Kaufman County have little blocks of ice on their tails!
@ 10:26 am on January 28, 2009
Did you actually count 350 birds? Hand ‘em a numbered card as they lined up at the feeder?
@ 10:33 am on January 28, 2009
Yes. Here is how I do it–you count twenty birds and hold your fist in front of you and cover those twenty birds. Then you move your fist over the flock and just count the number of times you count twenty. Easy. Takes ten seconds. Would you like to know all of their names? Karel, my little Carolina Wren, Nigel, had an a drop of ice hanging from his beak early this am. But he was singing away. I love them.
@ 10:36 am on January 28, 2009
Don’t you have two homes – one in Midway Hollow and another in the country? Which one has all these birds?
@ 10:40 am on January 28, 2009
I had a beautiful purple finch at my feeder this morning in Richardson. The cold really brings them out.
@ 12:09 pm on January 28, 2009
Vultures were on my porch this AM.
Gotta get my dogs to be more active.
@ 2:11 pm on January 28, 2009
MELANIE
No, the birds didn’t attack until
the children were outside the school.
Crows, I think. I don’t know, Daddy.
Is there a difference between crows
and blackbirds?
MRS. BUNDY
(turning from cigarette machine)
There is very definitely a difference,
Miss.
BOY
Are the birds gonna eat us, Mommy?
@ 4:18 pm on January 28, 2009
In Dallas.
@ 6:22 pm on January 28, 2009
Hi Tippi! Or we could have gone the culinary course and talked about taking 47 of them and baking a pie.
@ 6:23 pm on January 28, 2009
Easy bird count: Count the number of eyes, divide by two.
@ 11:21 am on January 29, 2009
FrontBurner® launched in March 2003, the first blog in Dallas run by a media organization. This is where the editors of D Magazine come to waste a tremendous amount of time.
10 comments
Sparrows and cardinals at my feeder this morning in eastern Kaufman County have little blocks of ice on their tails!
Did you actually count 350 birds? Hand ‘em a numbered card as they lined up at the feeder?
Yes. Here is how I do it–you count twenty birds and hold your fist in front of you and cover those twenty birds. Then you move your fist over the flock and just count the number of times you count twenty. Easy. Takes ten seconds. Would you like to know all of their names? Karel, my little Carolina Wren, Nigel, had an a drop of ice hanging from his beak early this am. But he was singing away. I love them.
Don’t you have two homes – one in Midway Hollow and another in the country? Which one has all these birds?
I had a beautiful purple finch at my feeder this morning in Richardson. The cold really brings them out.
Vultures were on my porch this AM.
Gotta get my dogs to be more active.
MELANIE
No, the birds didn’t attack until
the children were outside the school.
Crows, I think. I don’t know, Daddy.
Is there a difference between crows
and blackbirds?
MRS. BUNDY
(turning from cigarette machine)
There is very definitely a difference,
Miss.
BOY
Are the birds gonna eat us, Mommy?
In Dallas.
Hi Tippi! Or we could have gone the culinary course and talked about taking 47 of them and baking a pie.
Easy bird count: Count the number of eyes, divide by two.