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| Squirrel eating upside while his buddy spots him below. |
One of my favorite things of living up here in Lake Arrowhead is the wildlife. I have set up a veritable buffet in one of my trees of 3 bird feeders, a hummingbird sugar water feeder and a bird bath. I love watching all the different furry and feathered critters that come to visit. When I first moved up here I got the book Birds of the San Bernardino Mountains which has helped me identify all the different birds. Ideally I would have loved to put photos I took myself but being able to get the shot in time without scaring them away has proved impossible. So I've pulled the photos from The Cornell Lab website, All About Birds. These are all the different kinds of birds I've seen at my feeders, so far.
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| American Robin |
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| Anna's Hummingbird I initially neglected the hummingbirds until one got it my face "Where's MY feeder?" so I added one with sugar water. |
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| Black-headed Grosbeak |
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| Dark Eyed Junco |
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| House Finch |
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| Mountain Bluebird My favorite! I only saw it once. It flew up to my tree looked at me for a moment and then flew away. |
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| Mourning Dove The dove looks at me mournfully as it's a little too big to easily eat at the feeder. |
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| Purple Finch Not sure why they're called that. Clearly not purple. |
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| Spotted Towhee |
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| Western Scrub Jay I just saw this one yesterday at my feeder for the first time! |
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| Stellar Jay
These birds get a bad rap but I like them. One day I was leaning
against a tree trunk feel emo and one started dropping bits of bark
on my head. Not sure why but I found it amusing.
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| Acorn Woodpecker I love these birds. I have seen them around but they only recently started coming to my feeders. |
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| Mountain Chickadee I love these tiny birds. |
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| White-breasted Nuthatch |
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| Northern Flicker This is another variety of woodpecker. He's pretty big but is managing to feed at my feeders. |
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| Western Tanager Another favorite and I've only seen it once! |
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| Chipmunk (not a bird) The cutest! They also love to feed at my bird feeders. I had to chase one out of my house before my dog ate it. |
I use Tommy's Bird Watches Deluxe bird seed. It comes in a 20 pound bag for about $25. I buy it at Tommy's Pet Studio in Blue Jay. The birds easily go through 2 pounds of bird seed a day. I once tried to buy some cheaper bird seed that ran about $8 for 20 pounds. I was surprised the first day as all the seed was gone! How could they eat it that fast? They hadn't. My squirrels were so mad at the cheap seed that they dumped it all over the ground. So back to the fancy seed...
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| Snow Squirrel I gave him his own feeder so he wouldn't have to do acrobatics hanging from the branches upside down. It doesn't stop him. |
As we all know birds attract cats... One day I opened my front door to one of these:
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| Bobcat |
I quickly picked up my dog and followed the cat as it ran off and we watched each other for a few moments (safely from a distance). I decided that the Bobcat was my spirit animal. :) I was mesmerized by it and that experience is one of the highlights of my time here.
Otherwise I've seen plenty of coyotes which I'm less excited by as I have little dogs. They're also much bigger up in the mountains than the scrawny coyotes I was used to seeing in Los Angeles. I've seen lots of raccoon tracks in the snow around my house. I've yet to see a bear, sadly. However my neighbor Maegan has seen them in her trash and here's a link to her blog post about it. I can't wait to see one! (safely from a distance) :) Mountain lions...not so much.
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| Stellar Jays in my tree. |
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