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Other recent sightings at the Souders have included a Great Blue Heron flying out of a pond on Route 231; an Osprey, or Fish Hawk, sitting along the Thornton River just outside of Sperryville; and an Oven bird that flew into one of their windows and broke its neck.
The Souders have heard Hoot, Screech and Great Homed owls, but have not actually seen any here.
When the weather gets colder and drives the birds in, the Souders’ three-to-four feeders will offer hospitality to a variety of species. “We get several kinds of peckers-Downeys, Red-Bellied, Hairy and Pileated; Cardinals; Chickadees; Purple Finches; Titmice; Grosbeaks; and Goldfinches, to name a few.”
Goldfinches, the Souders note, are sort of a greenish-grey in the winter. They do not dress up in their gold and black plummage until the thistles start blooming in early summer.
The Souders put sunflower seed in their feeders, along with suet. When they render the suet, which is beef fat, they mix in sunflower seeds, peanut butter, oatmeal, cornmeal or even raisin?. “You can put in most anything,” Doris advises.
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