Posted on 05/02/2009 5:03:12 PM PDT by PERKY2004
Every spring, we get a lot of goldfinches in our backyard, along with the house finches who stay here, year 'round. (I'm in central California.) This spring, I noticed a larger black-and-yellow bird on one of our feeders, and I don't think it's a goldfinch. He's fast, so I did my best to snap a few pictures. Any ideas what kind of bird he is?
The yellow bird on our sunflower seed feeder.
Goldfinches (for comparison) on a different feeder
A visiting squirrel
Our cat, Smudge, watching the birds and the squirrels.
Neither, looks like a black headed grossbeak.
I love the red headed woodpecker! We had one when we moved here over 20 years ago, but he has since disappeared.
I have had rose breasted grosbeaks here for the last week. All the others at your feeders are regulars at mine as well.
A hungry one.
I used to love seeing cardinals. We don’t have them here.
Speaking of hungry - how do these Grosbeaks taste?
I think I know what Smudge is thinking. It has to do with cutural exchange, close quarters and “getting to know birdie”.
A crumpled horn snorkack?
Mark
Whatever it is, it’s pinin’ for the fjords.
I had this same bird the last two years at early spring - they amazingly go for the hummingbird feeders (I use tube-type ones) and try to get the nectar - don’t know if they leaarned this by watching my hummingbirds, or if it’s a natural thing for them but was quite surprised to see them try to hover and sip ( with lots of repeated tries)
ROFL!!!!!
What a great cat you have and Smudge is perfect name! LOL!
Here's a Baltimore Oriole. Your bird is not an oriole.
You have to know these things when you’re a king, you know.
You appear to know your stuff. What are the two birds on the left and right in photo #1? I’ve never been able to find them in a book, and I see them in the central Midwest all the time (N. Illinois, S. Michigan, etc.).
“That bird is a California Oriole.”
Sure looks like it. I had a visit from a little owl the other day. He dived into the yard (mid day) after a snake about 4 ft.long. Then he just sat on a low branch while I talked to him for about 15 minutes.
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