Wild Birds Unlimited would like to thank everyone who stopped by last Saturday to learn about the species of birds that only spend their winters here in the Tennessee Valley.
Species that will be showing up soon like winter wren, hermit thrush, yellow-bellied sapsucker, golden-crowned kinglet, dark-eyed junco, white-throated sparrow and red-breasted nuthatch. The group also learned about the different things you can do to attract these shy birds to your backyard: heated birdbath and Bark Butter are at the top of that “let’s get ready for winter” list.
Wild Birds is one of the sponsors of the Hummingbird Festival at Ijams Nature Center every August.
And as if on cue, a red-breasted nuthatch showed up at the home feeders of Wild Birds Assistant Manager Tiffiny Hamlin the very next day. Plus what appears to be a late-season migrant, a young Cape May Warbler in winter plumage.
What a day, Tiffiny! A backyard two-fer!
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