However, since you've shared photos from Spring, I guess I'm at liberty to share some of mine from earlier this year. I think technically these were taken in Spring, but in Indiana, we experienced a long winter. This first one is one of my faves, the Brown Creeper. I love this tiny guy! He actually brought a friend with him a few days later, and it was the first time I had ever seen 2 Creepers at the same time!
Here's a male Pileated Woodpecker. I thought he was excavating a potential nesting site, but if that was his intention, the Mrs. didn't like it. We have had 2 males and 2 females visit us almost every day, several times a day, until the last month or two. I still hear them in the woods behind our house, but they have become rare visitors to our feeders these days. I guess they have plentiful natural sources for their diet out on the great wide open.
Baltimore Oriole that visited what now seems like ages ago. I keep wondering if I'll see him on his way back South.
Fellow birders, show us your photos! There are so many species, and I'll never get to see them all in person! I love the everyday to the exotic. Also, what may be mundane to you, might be extraordinary for someone else! Swampsniper lives on!
I have a small cabin at the Lake of the Ozarks in the back end of a wooded cove. We have some Pileated that live in those woods. When I have put a suet feeder out as a couple of others do, the Pileated comes by 3 times a day. 6:00, 11:30 and 4;30. It is uncanny how regular to those exact times he comes by making is rounds around the cove.
Where many birds are oblivious to us inside, the bird is of a size and eye development that makes him very skittish. But pictures don’t convey how big these birds are in real life. Hanging on the suet feeder upside down and wrapped around it they look the size of a cocker spaniel.