Green Heron
Turkey Vulture (When a squirrel gets run over in front of your house, don't let a perfectly good squirrel go to waste. Put it in front of a trail camera...and wait.
Birdy ping!
Just lovely! Thanks for posting.
We live on a small lake and have so many birds especially this time of year. My favorite is a pair of kingfishers that skim the surface looking for fish. We also have a large Heron.
We were painting a house beige. A blackbird flew in through the open door and collided multiple times with the wet walls before making it out again. Its appearance was so modified I thought it might set off a bird-mania. Imagine a black mottled beige bird. He looked awesome. Bet he has a hard time attracting a mate. Birds aren’t into diversity.
Excellent. Thanks for posting.
We have resident Spotted Towhees, and Scrub jays here at the ranch. Being exactly between Lakes Mathews, and Perris we do get occasional visits by Herons, and Egrets, and often see formations of Geese flying overhead.
Lots of fun.
Gorgeous! Thank you for sharing.
Nice!
It’s been a GREAT birding season here in SE Wisconsin.
Orioles
Grosbeak
Enough Goldfinch to host a Peeps Convention!
Indigo Buntings
Bluebirds
Thrasher
Cardinals
And all the little ‘house’ birds...
Added bonus? A male Ring-neck Pheasant has made our back woodpile his home for some reason. He’s been here for 2 weeks; we’ve named him, ‘Grover,’ though he may end up named ‘Dinner’ if he pesters my garden! ;)
Turkey Vulture (When a squirrel gets run over in front of your house, don't let a perfectly good squirrel go to waste. Put it in front of a trail camera...and wait.
Our backyard has been torrent of birds lately. Add to that the squirrels, swamp rabbits and occasionally a possum, we have our own wildlife habitat!
I retired in August. In January I started bird watching on a semi (but not entirely) serious basis. Since the first of the year I have logged 140 species on eBird, including one that had never been seen in the county before. It’s been fun. I get the wife out with me on most trips. We’ve enjoyed it.
On the side of my house I have two bird houses, one on each side of the garden window located over my kitchen sink and each house about 4 ft. from the window. The holes were drilled small so as only chickadees could fit in.
I then set up two mirrors in the window sill so that I could observe both houses while standing at my sink.
Anyway, for the past 3 weeks I've been watching a pair of chickadees flitting in and out from one house to the other. I'm not sure of their behavior but I think they are building nests in both houses until they decide on the one they want to rent............
It's been fun watching them work and I hope the outcome is better than last year when I stupidly took their house down to inspect the inside after not seeing them for a while. Turns out they had NINE eggs in it so I replaced it. They returned to the house only a couple of times before they abandoned it.......
Lesson learned, I'm leaving it alone for the season.........
So can anyone here school me on chickadee behavior regarding the two nests?
Great shots, Islander!
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Maybe someone here can give me a suggestion on my problem. There is a male Cardinal,that can’t stop fighting his reflection in the window beside my bed. At first I threw some old white sheets over the azaleas bushes and he stopped. But after about a month the azaleas were beginning to look bad so I removed the sheets.
He came back again and wakes me up just before sunrise every morning.
I don’t have to get up that early and I don’t want to get up then. Short of putting rolling metal shutters over the window does anyone have any ideas?
The shutters would not be a bad idea because hurricane season will be here before we know it. But..........
Your photography is outstanding! Love seeing the pics.
Gorgeous.
We have cardinals, tufted titmice, downy woodpeckers, goldfinch, red-bellied woodpeckers, purple finches, bluejays, nuthatches, chickadees, sparrows and juncos coming on to our deck in winter. We have other birds that don’t come to the deck or that are only here in the warm months: hairy woodpeckers, pileated woodpeckers, great barred owls, redtail hawks, sharp-shinned hawks, crows, rose-breasted grosbeaks, baltimore orioles, scarlet tanagers, blue herons, canada gueese, ruby throated hummingbirds,carolina wrens, phoebes, eastern towhee and cedar waxwings.
