First Bird for the New Year? (mine, a dead ruby crowned kinglet)

[uppityperson]

I read that the first bird you see in the new year is an indication of how the year will go. Mr.UP just brought in a dead ruby crowned kinglet that he found on our porch. Does this have meaning for the New Year?

[semillama]

1. savannah sparrow was mine

Usually it's pigeon or house sparrow, so I guess that's a good portent for my birding year.

[XemaSab]

2. Pigeon

I was looking for the Bald Eagles, but to no avail. :(

[AllegroRondo]

3. Canadian geese

lots of them. they hang out at the pond at work.

[sybylla]

4. Too flipping cold to even draw back a curtain.

Honestly, I haven't seen a bird yet. When it gets this cold, they just don't come around much. I live on an unprotected hill and though we have several rows of shrubs and trees, unless I feed them, I don't see them in the winter.

The last bird I saw in 2007 was a Robin. Poor thing must have been blown off course by a winter storm because they never over-winter up here in Central Wisconsin. He was huddling in my crab apple tree all fluffed up and trying to be happy. Does that say anything about 2007?

[Maestro]

5. Mine was a crow.

Perhaps it just means you need to provide food and possibly shelter to the little feathered ones in your yard.

[tigereye]

6. cardinal

of course they live in the neighbor's shrubs, so that isn't too hard...