Last season a guest was packing into her car, what appeared to be a telescope. She explained that telescopes are for star-gazing, but spotters are for bird-watching. She found so many different types of species on her last visit to the Mount Battie Motel that she returned again for more bird watching pleasures. She explained that this area is the migration path for many species of birds, starting with the songbirds in May & ending with the Hawks in October. Since the Mount Battie Motel is located at the foothills of the Camden State Park, she feels birds just fly over the property line right through our backyard.
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So when winter was approaching, we placed a few bird feeders behind the main house. It didn’t take long for the birds to find them. One morning, after a snowfall, it seemed as if the birds were flying from all directions to grab a free meal. I always thought that birds sat on a perch & ate. But, I suppose when you are low on the food chain, you must grab & run, or in their case grab & fly. And it actually appears as if they do that. I observed five birds in a tree. The bird on the lowest branch of the tree was fist to visit the feeder, grab some seed & fly to the very top of the tree. All the others then descended down a branch to wait their turn. The next bird visited the feeder & repeated the circle of feeding.
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At the end of May, a strange thing happened. Starting early in the morning, an enormous number of birds landed on the yard of the Mount Battie Motel. More and more appeared as the day grew on. The sound of chirping and song increased as the numbers grew larger. They all appeared to be starving and didn’t care if you walked right up to them. As if they knew where to go and communicated with each other, they kept coming, as if they were falling from the sky, more and more landed. We refilled all our feeders several times. It was chaotic. We weren’t sure when it was going to end. It took days for the massive migration to begin to leave. After the feast, we have noticed an increase of birds continuously in our yard.
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seasonMay - October
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