[va-richmond-general] Re: Birds in our chimney

 
 
Jim
 
They're probably Chimney Swifts.  Young  starlings are light brown
 
Wendy Ealding
Powhatan County
 
In a message dated 7/25/2007 11:42:06 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
jimvb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

 
There are lots of birds lately at  our house. Today a flock of about 15 
grackles and starlings arrived at our  feeder area. They dominate everything, 
preventing hummingbirds from getting at  the feeder and having a knock-down 
dragout-argument with a brown thrasher over  the suet. At one point in the 
afternoon, 
four grackles surrounded a  red-bellied woodpecker at the suet, and 
eventually the woodpecker left. The  grackles are skittish birds, however. I 
walked up 
to the bay window, and  fwuuush!! all of the blackbirds left. About a minute 
later, the hummingbird  returned. 
The hummingbird (a female  ruby-throated) earlier hesitated to get to the 
feeder because there was a  finch sitting on top of it. 
We have mammals, too. A squirrel  got into the feeder post and did not like 
the hot-pepper suet. So he tried to  get the feed from the main feeder, and the 
rotating ring whirled him around  once and flung him off, and he hit his head 
on the  post. 
There are birds in our chimney. We  kept hearing this buzzing and twittering 
noise from the chimney, so we called  in the sweep. He told us, and showed us, 
three black chicks or juvenile birds  in the chimney. I think they are 
chimney swifts, but I wouldn’t put it past  these starlings to make a nest in 
the 
chimney. He said wait two weeks until  they are strong enough to fly out of the 
chimney, and the noise will be  gone. 
Jim  Blowers




 



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