Project Feeder Watch: Week 5 totals

We had an unusually high number of Mourning Doves again. In fact, last week we had an email from Project Feeder watch asking us to confirm an earlier submission of 90+ Mourning Doves as that number is 2x the provincial average for the area. We can indeed confirm this. We used binoculars to make sure it wasn't anything else and since the birds were relatively stationary, we didn't get confused by alot of movement. They love to roost in the trees just above the feeders and the rest tend to eat spilt seed on the ground.

We did not see any hawks all weekend long, but just this morning Dave called me over to watch Cooper's perched on the back fence. He then flew down to the ground, watched behind the shed intently and then walked (waddled) his way over behind the shed and out of sight.

Here's this week's totals:

Mourning Dove	79 Confirmed
Red-bellied Woodpecker	1
Downy Woodpecker	4
Hairy Woodpecker	3
Northern Flicker	0
Pileated Woodpecker	0
Northern Shrike	0
Gray Jay	0
Blue Jay	8
American Crow	2
Common Raven	0
Black-capped Chickadee	6
Boreal Chickadee	0
Tufted Titmouse	0
Red-breasted Nuthatch	1
White-breasted Nuthatch	1
Brown Creeper	0
Carolina Wren	0
American Robin	1
Northern Mockingbird	1
European Starling	6
Bohemian Waxwing	0
Cedar Waxwing	0
American Tree Sparrow	2
Chipping Sparrow	0
Fox Sparrow	0
Song Sparrow	0
White-throated Sparrow	0
White-crowned Sparrow	0
Dark-eyed Junco	10
Snow Bunting	0
Northern Cardinal	7
Red-winged Blackbird	3
Common Grackle	0
Brown-headed Cowbird	29
Pine Grosbeak	0
Purple Finch	0
House Finch	5 (0 with eye disease)
Common Redpoll	0
Hoary Redpoll	0
Pine Siskin	0
American Goldfinch	39 (0 with eye disease)
Evening Grosbeak	0
House Sparrow	45