Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for February 18, 2013

I like to watch the chickadees and nuthatches. They take one seed at a time, fly off to a limb, eat the seed, then go back for another one. If you stand close to the feeder they (chickadees) will get used to you. Then you can move closer each time they fly off. If you are patient, you can actually get them to land on you and take food from your hand.

Reminds me of Hitchcocks “birds”.

I dunno Arlo….I give it a 47…Not much of a beat and I can’t really dance to it.

He rocks in the tree tops all day longHoppin’ and a-boppin’ and a-singing his songAll the little birds on Jaybird StreetLove to hear the robin go tweet tweet tweet

More lyrics: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/b/bobby_day/

Hmm, The Byrds performed on American Bandstand a couple of times in 1967 and 1968.

Maybe a reference to the Great Backyard Bird Count?

Chickadees are the avian Jimmy Cagneys… jaunty little guys who aren’t afraid of much. They even have a little cap tilted down over their eyes.

Ludwig has only a gastronomical interest in that show.

had BlueJay, White Wing Dove, and Cardnials in my front yard yesterday morning. Love watching them while I eat breakfast.

When he was a kid watching AB, I bet he watched the girls; now the colorful birds he likes are boys; I give up

Aww, this reminds me of my kitty. She sits in the windowsill and I stand behind her and we look out the window together. She has that same alert look that Luddy has, too!

Unfortunately, the starlings have found our feeders and can empty all three in about fifteen minutes. Hateful things.

One night I was sleeping on my daughter’s and son-in-law’s living room sofa, and suddenly heard someone banging around on the front porch and tapping on the window, right near where I was lying. I crept into my daughter’s bedroom and asked her for the phone. I called 911 and told them someone was on the porch. Soon two sheriff’s deputies showed up with their flashlights and shortly knocked on the front door. One of them said, “See this trail of food . . . and the bird feeder,” which was in a disheveled state. They theorized that a raccoon had reared up on a table under the feeder and had had his way with it. I was kind of embarrassed. Otherwise, we did enjoy watching the chickadees, junkos, cardinals and such at the feeder.

Can someone esplain this one? Youtube links? AB is before my time.

My husband has read this comic for a long time. He often forwards them to me. They make me laugh because I swear you have used us as the basis of this comic. I’m sure that you have heard that from many readers, but it is so true in our case that I had to share my thoughts. We live in the country and have several bird feeders across the driveway from our house. They have provided many hours of pleasure watching the comings and goings.

When I was feeding the local birds, we had nuthatches, chicadees, cardinals, tufted titmouses, mourning doves, besides the finches and sparrows. We also had a woodpecker as I would hang out suet. Squirrels found the feeder, deer found the feeder and some ravenous red-winged blackbirds who would fly in from a mile or two away and suck down the whole station. Went to hanging suet squares in cages. Deer and squirrels still attacked the cages. In the summer I put out that sweetened water next to a window and we get hummingbirds and northern orioles. Sometimes the hummingbirds get upset if I don’t keep the tank filled. They tap on the window. Entitlement, huh.

I love watching the birds at my bird feeders also! I could spend an hour happily watching them. :-)

pcolli: My “life list” is currently 26 – limited to the birds I have seen from my house.

@MikefromMichigan: I changed from sunflower to safflower (which has capsaicin) and regular suet to one with a high dose of chili oil in it. No more squirrels attacking the feeder and the birds actually preferred the chili oil suet when given a choice. The only thing is that there are fewer bird species that eat the safflower than sunflower. Squirrels get a bone disease if they only eat sunflower, so I figure I’m doing them a favor by not giving it to them.

“Watch Annette Funicello on youtube singing “Tall Paul” on American Bandstand with Dick Clark dancing to it.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne2yFQPYYmUThat was weird!-Cougar :{)

The Bluejays are pretty but nasty. Just like a lot of the cute guys in those rock groups.

Arlo used to want to devour musicians? Nah. Different universe.

“They have also been introduced to California (although some populations found in the Colorado River Valley are marginally natives), as well as having been introduced to Hawaii in the late 1920’s and Bermuda in 1700.”I have no idea what part of California – I’ve never seen any either.

Cardinal and Radish….

I’ve never seen a cardinal in California either…I’m 50 miles north of SF.

Mockingbirds, we got.

When I was a kid in the Midwest, “mockingbird” sounded so, I dunno, Southern Gothic and romantic….

MY mockingbirds, OTOH, do not emit pretty tunes…. no melodies, no moonlight sonatas.From dark till sun-up they caw, croak, shriek, beep like smoke alarms and laugh maniacally, in repeated patterns… and strident tones.

In nesting season they chase and dive-bomb you if you walk within 10 feet or so of a hidden nest.

I missed the little clowns anyway, and worried about them, when a lot of trees here were cut down, and they disappeared for a couple of years.Luckily, they eventually returned.

No accounting for love.

How…old…ARE YOU!?

emjaycee: When I was young, Saber Dance was a popular recording and a neighbor girl would play it so often that the neighborhood mockingbird learned the first four measures – never could get the trombone glissandi right, though.

Every little swallow and every chickadee, every little bird in the tall oak tree… that’s the birds I remember from American Bandstand. ;-)

We were invaded by robins late this afternoon. I don’t believe I’ve even seen so many. I’ve certainly never before heard robins make that much noise.

We had a hummingbird nesting ina tree near the cluster mailboxes, so every sping if you went for a walk around the neighborhood, or just to go get your mail the daddy would “buzz” you. My daughter would try to play with him…..