Juvenile Birds at the Feeder

A Great Preview to the Bird-Watching Season

Fall is quickly approaching. Next Friday is September 1st. Where has the Summer gone? It seems to go faster every year. With Fall comes bird watching, specifically feeder bird watching. As the weather cools, more and more birds will visit the feeders.

For those of you who follow my writings, you know about my bird-watching opportunity on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada, a few weeks ago. It was a great experience yet challenging to photograph birds from a moving boat. However, I was able to add quite a few new species to my life list. I wrote several articles regarding this outing:

I normally don’t fill my feeders in the Summer. For one, it gets too expensive to feed them year-round. Also, it tends to attract too many other creatures in the warmer weather. In the Summer, I just enjoy birds in the yard and trees. It is much more challenging to identify them in the trees. Merlin is a great tool to use to identify them using sound. They keep improving the app.

However, come August each year, I start to put out a little seed on my platform feeder to see what I can attract. Specifically, I’m looking for juvenile birds.

I may have been a few weeks late putting seed out, however, I am still seeing some juvenile birds. For some species such as the Blue Jay, their looks can be comical. Blue Jays without complete head feathers look prehistoric.

As always, I’m looking forward to birds at the feeders this Fall and Winter. As I do each year, I will be participating in Project FeederWatch and The Great Backyard Bird Count.

Until next time.