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I'm going through a lot of thistle and seed for the larger (for my yard) population of Gold finch. While watching them out the window today I notice a different look on one bird. I realized after it was a Pine Siskin. If they've been here previously I never noticed them, or thought they were something else.
Oh and a bald eagle flew above my house today while I was filling feeders. That was cool, no photo proof though. He was gone before could grab the camera.
I'm going through a lot of thistle and seed for the larger (for my yard) population of Gold finch. While watching them out the window today I notice a different look on one bird. I realized after it was a Pine Siskin. If they've been here previously I never noticed them, or thought they were something else.
Oh and a bald eagle flew above my house today while I was filling feeders. That was cool, no photo proof though. He was gone before could grab the camera.
Well, since you asked I had to figure it out. I had never seen the kind of bird before. I've come to the conclusion that it's a Gray Jay. I hiked to Mills Lake from the Bear Lake Trailhead and then up Glacier Gorge Trail on Oct 7, 2020. I had done the hike with my daughter on Sept. 1, 2020, without adding in the part from Bear Lake, but she and her boyfriend were going faster than I wanted to go and not enjoying the trip the way I wanted to, once we got to the top. I wanted to do it my way. I loved it!
Diet Gray Jays eat a variety of foods including arthropods, berries, carrion, nestling birds, and fungi. They learn quickly to recognize and look for human food, as well as take advantage of game that has been shot or trapped by hunters. When foraging, the Gray Jay scans its surroundings from a succession of perches, each a short flight apart from one another. It will snap up flying insects in the air, wade in shallow water to capture invertebrates and amphibians, kill small mammals, raid the nests of other birds, and occasionally pursue small birds like chickadees and warblers.
They store food year-round by producing special saliva from large glands and molding the food into a sticky blob, gluing it behind flakes of bark, under lichen, in conifer needles, or in tree forks. They seem to have a good success rate of remembering where they have stored food.
^I saw the bird take food from me and then go put it behind bark on a nearby tree.
I was already in heaven at the place I stopped at Mills Lake to sit on a rock and eat a peanut butter and orange marmalade sandwich and then the bird showed up and really made it special.
^Perfect rock to sit on while eating a sandwich and cooling my feet.
I sold my 2005 with 100,000 miles on it after I bought this one with 12,000 from Raleigh, North Carolina. My original S2000, was a 2001 Silverstone and the ex still has it.
^8-21-2013. I miss the blue interior of the Suzuka baby.
Our S has 117K on it...little things have gone wrong. I don't like to feel like something might break. We've never kept a car this long, but it IS special.
Here's a bird pic from last year. Two for the price of one...not in my yard. Osprey and Great Blue Heron
10-07-2020, 08:53 PM
I loved it! 
