![\"Photo](\"http:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/RobinonSumacVonNaturalCrooksDotCom.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\nI wrote an article recently about birds that eat Staghorn Sumac<\/strong><\/a> drupes. I saw more than seven American Robins on the Sumac today and several European Starlings.<\/p>\n Birds that can eat the sunflower seeds, millet and cracked corn provided on the feeders were busy loading up.<\/p>\n She preferred the seeds on the logs to the ones on the tray feeder.<\/em><\/p>\n And over all the others was soaring a Red Tailed Hawk. It actually used the strong wind to stay still in mid-air for several seconds before continuing its long sweep out over the marsh.<\/p>\n I saw enough to make me willing to brave it all again another day. In the meantime, though, a cup of peppermint tea and a mohair blanket were my next welcome sights.<\/p>\n Related Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n Join In<\/strong> Were these critters really worth crying for? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[216,385,217,463,459,218,458,129],"class_list":["post-4351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rambles","tag-american-tree-sparrow","tag-blue-jay","tag-dark-eyed-junco","tag-european-starling","tag-northern-cardinal","tag-red-tailed-hawk","tag-staghorn-sumac","tag-starlings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4351"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4356,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4351\/revisions\/4356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\nSeed-Eaters Enjoy the Feeders<\/h2>\n
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\nTwo American Tree Sparrows took turns at the tray.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/a>
\nThis male Cardinal never went far from his lady.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>
\nA Mourning Dove gave me the baby-blue eye.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/a>
\nA Junco loaded up on small seeds.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/a>
\nThis Blue Jay took about a dozen sunflower seeds away in one trip before moving off to keep an eye on me.<\/em><\/p>\nPredators Soar In the Icy Wind<\/h2>\n
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\nDo you have a favourite winter walk? Have you seen any winter visitors recently? Please share your sighting with a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"