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This blog is a way of sharing some of the things we see and are working on at the Fletcher Wildlife Garden (FWG). Contributions of photos taken at the FWG and information about them are welcome. Please send them to fletcher@ofnc. Be sure to provide the full name of the photographer and permission to use the photo on our blog.
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Several grey squirrels were eating Manitoba maple seeds on other trees in the garden. The maple keys are fast vanishing, as are the crabapples and sumac seeds. It has been a poor year for conifer cones and the red squirrels haven't been able to store as many as they sometimes do. Times could be tough for these guys, and other birds and animals. Fortunately we have two feeders at the garden which are kept filled all winter long. This helps a lot.
At the Ash woods feeder, there were a few each of house finches, chickadees, and juncos. A red-tailed hawk was circling the garden for most of the hour that I was there. Initially I saw him flying from the FWG to the Arboretum, but a little while later he was back circling around and around over the pond and the conifers SE of the pond.
There were five cardinals around this feeder, three females and two males, a female downy woodpecker, six chickadees, one white-breasted nuthatch and two red squirrels. Not much else.
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