Date: 1/25/26 7:19 am From: Jeff Hansen via groups.io <jeff.hansen.sd...> Subject: [sd-birds] Sanborn county
I went out to fill all my feeders because they were all empty because it's been so cold. As I was filling them. I looked out towards one of my birdhouses and I saw something perched on top. I thought it's probably a woodpecker so I went closer and I saw it fly down to some weeds and I saw it flick its tail. I knew it couldn't be a woodpecker. I walked around some more and I saw it fly up into a dead tree and it was a northern shrike. I wonder how they get enough to eat in this cold weather. Hopefully he takes one of my house. Sparrows.
Otherwise I have nothing to report. I mean nothing. I guess I did see a red-tailed hawk coming back from Mitchell the other day.
Everyone locally has red breasted nuthatches but I do not.
I do have a flicker hitting the feeders.
And still have a lone white crowned sparrow first year.
