Let’s look at some of our guests. The first brown bird that might come to mind is the sparrow, and several species come to my feeder. The house sparrow is common in cities and suburbs.

Again, the larger bird was driven from the feeder by the smaller nuthatch ... And what about the rare Brown creepers? They will be the subject of a later column. Since they feed mostly on insects ...

We also see the little brown and white pine siskins ... Unlike the rosy-finches, our grosbeaks remain at the feeder, sit in the midst of the sunflower seeds and eat seeds and spit out shells ...

As the growing number of cases of the avian flu continues to make headlines across the country, bird enthusiasts, farmers, ...

Then, the birds start to come to your bird feeder! This is the obvious expectation ... they all scatter at the arrival of an ungainly, beady-eyed brown thrasher or Mr. and Mrs.