Date: 6/22/26 12:38 pm From: Mary Reese via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Pet hair for nesting material
I've been using cat fur for many years. The birds seem to preferSoft longhair white fur. When brushing a longhair cat, you get tons of it. You just have to make sure that your cat's fur is not full of poison from parasite meds (flea, tick, worm, etc.). As indoor cats, mine never needed the meds, so the fur is non-toxic for for the baby birds.
I have noticed that the birds who enjoy this soft, fluffy fur the most are the hummingbirds, so I put the fur dispenser close to their feeder. I've seen chickadees and house finches use it, too. Make sure your dispenser (suet feeders work great) is under a shelter of some sort. If it gets rained on, it will become a big, hard fur ball.
Isn't that ironic that the baby birds are all snuggled up in the fur of their predator?
Mary ReesePortland OR
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Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2026 13:27:26 -0700
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? While birding yesterday we saw turkey vultures here in Skagit County:
? 1) Three TUVU (3) soaring/circling at Rosario Beach.
? ? ? ?Rosario, in general, was "pretty dead" - no Kingfisher, no
Alcids, a few Oystercatchers, no Harlequin or
? ? ? ?Wood Ducks, no Canada Geese, a larger than normal amount of
White-crowned Sparrows and a
? ? ? ?normal amount of Tree Swallows.? Heard, but did not see, a
Flicker.? Several crows but no Ravens.
? ? ? ?Almost no gulls of any kind and only one flight of cormorants
(but 20 in that one flight!),
? 2) Four TUVU on the ground near the road between the West 90 and
where you go onto Samish Island.
? ? ? This was one by itself and 3 more 'close' to each other - all
were down on the ground and in
? ? ? what I'd call "recently cut hay/grasses".
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? - Jim in Skagit
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Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2026 17:50:35 -0700
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Hi tweets
Those Greater Yellowlegs are for sure the first southbound shorebirds of
the summer. I spent nearly fifteen years monitoring shorebirds at the Iona
Island settling ponds mostly as well as Boundary Bay from the northbound
rush in April, through the May/June hiatus to the bitter end in November.
Getting to know what birds loitered in the five or six weeks between
migrations made the first southbound arrivals conspicuous. Usually the
first southbound birds to arrive were the Yellowlegs, sometimes as early as
June 18. Then the arrivals of adult Western, SemiSandpiper, Least in week
4 June. The first shorebird juveniles start showing up in Weeks 4-5 July,
three to four weeks after the arrival of the adults. Everybody's pretty
much gone by November.
Of course, there's waaayyy more to it but there's a very quick overview.
best wishes, m
Michael Price
Vancouver BC Canada
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