The first dark eyed juncos have arrived! I saw them this afternoon. Our goldfinch have mostly lost their bright yellow and are taking on the winter plumage. We have an immature male cardinal who is beginning to get his reds, and the chickadees, tufted titmice and white-breasted nuthatch are eating us out of house and home! I filled that tube feeder and the peanut tray at noon - 6 hours later both are more than half empty. I love watching the nuthatch - they take the peanuts straight to a favorite tree and stash the nut meat under some bark for winter eating. I wonder how much they actually get and how much the squirrels find! Birds are special...
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Great acorn page on the Mass Audubon site. Remember a couple years ago when it sounded like buckets of them being poured on the roof?? That, I guess, is called a "Mast Year"
http://www.massaudubon.org/blogs/yourgreatoutdoors/about-those-acorns/
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