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________________________ Mourning Doves
They love to nest in the peach trees! Their nests are rather haphazard, shallow cones of sticks on lateral branches generally at eye level. While they should be finished nesting by peach season, you will see their empty nests. ______________________ Starlings
Nuisances from Africa. However, their populations continue to thrive here with their perennial diet of cat food and seed, supplemented with seasonal fruit! Many nest year round in the barn and farming implements and hollow oak branches. ______________________ Rusty Blackbirds
Gregarious with a yellow eye. Females and immatures are a lighter brown. Several colonies nested this year in the Colorado Blue Spruce in the yard adjacent to Pioneer Road. They feed in mixed flocks on the ground with the Tricolored Blackbirds and quail. See the description below for specific areas to look! ______________________
Tricolored Blackbirds
Easily distinguished from the Rusty by their dark eyes and wing color. Females and immatures are a lighter brown . They choose to nest out in the orchards. Many use the telephone poles as lookout towers to guard their nests from Scrub Jays. We scatter seeds on the ground around the rose mound adjacent to the house, facing Pioneer Road. They bring their large families and can be seen at close range. ______________________ Bullock’s Orioles
You will find these nesting in the birch trees in the garden behind the house. They feed on fruit and insects in the orchards! They also enjoy sipping from the “Hummingbird Feeders!” ______________________ American Robins
They love to take advantage of the regular watering to hunt for food. They are the first to wake up in the morning and the last ones to sing at dusk! ______________________ Rufous Hummingbirds
The hummingbird feeders are located on the North Deck of the house. The Rufous hummers are small, orangey-red and feisty! The hummingbirds love many of the plant species we have around the gardens including Cape Fuschia, Penstemon, honeysuckle, and various salvias! Most of these are scattered throughout the gardens situated behind the house in mixed perennial mounds.
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We have a wide variety of wild birds to be viewed during the picking season. Because our farm has such a wide range of habitats, many birds have established nesting grounds that they use year after year.
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