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Fletcher Wildlife Garden | all galleries >> Previous FWG blogs >> 2009 Blogs >> FWG blog: February 2009 > Pine siskin
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24 February 2009 Christine Hanrahan

Pine siskin

Arboretum

While at FWG, I heard some pine siskins fly over the garden. Initially I thought they'd landed in the BYG, but by the time I got there, they were nowhere to be seen. However, once I got down into the Arboretum I could hear them calling again, this time from the conifer collection near the toboggan hill. Just where they were yesterday. They were feeding on tamarack cones (Japanese larch) and on cedar cones. A couple of goldfinches were in the flock, and a few chickadees were hanging around too. The siskins were moving constantly and unfortunately this was the best shot I could get, along with the next one, from yesterday morning. At one time or another, while trying to photograph them, I was dive-bombed by both siskins and chickadees! I don't really know if the siskins were looking for seed or telling me to get lost, but I'm quite sure the chickadees were asking for food!

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Guest 26-Feb-2010 20:49
Checkadees really do ask for food. Last spring when I had stopped feeding them, I was sitting out on the porch near the feeder, and a checkadee flew up and landed on my knee and chirped at me. Today, a snowy February day, I ran out of sunflower seeds but went out on the porch, and a chcickdee flew up and "buzzed" me, flying around my head. I feel like Snoopy with Woodstock chirping at hem.
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