Live from Grand Junction, Colorado!

Introducing our first FeederWatch Participant Cam generously hosted by long-time FeederWatchers David Smith and Shanna Rendon. Avid birders and photographers, David and Shanna enjoy watching birds from their picture window overlooking high desert, shale hills, and cliffs of gneiss and sandstone.

Streaming live from their home count site that borders the Colorado National Monument on the western slope of the Rockies at 5,000 feet elevation, the cam is situated in the heart of what David describes as the “pinyon/juniper ecosystem.”

Among native sage, juniper, and pinyon pines, David and Shanna provide a variety of feeders, including tube feeders filled with nyjer seed and sunflower chips, platform feeders offering cracked corn and peanuts, as well as a peanut butter suet cage. In addition, they spread corn, sunflower chips, and peanuts on the ground and feature a heated bird bath with black plastic mesh behind it to serve as a ladder for thirsty squirrels and chipmunks in the summer.