Are you a Birdhouse/Birdnest Landlord? :)

[Bill of Rights FIRST]

How are your birdhouse and birdnest happenings doing this year? Birds with rent free and tax free homes thanks to you! ;)

[CrazyCatChick]

I have some uninvited sparrows - I think - under my window air conditioner. It’s making me bitter because I can’t use it during this heat wave.

Do sparrows keep using the same nest?

[AFB-XYZ]

I have a huge pine tree (easily 30’ tall or more) in my yard that a gang of mockingbirds moved into a couple of years ago. They show the local squirrels no mercy at all.
Their morning songs are really something to hear. Vast repertoire.

[LIConFem]

I never knew we had so many bird species around here. We have Mourning Doves (of course), several different flavor of Sparrow, European Starlings, Grackles, Downey Woodpeckers, Red Bellied Woodpeckers, Northern Flickers, American Goldfinches, Gray Catbirds, Blue Jays, Red-Breasted Grosbeak, Black-Capped Chickadee, Robin Red Breasts, Cardinals, and a few I haven’t identified as yet.

Recently watched an adult Starling feeding her young on our feeder, although they apparently were abl to feed themselves. Still, they perched on the feeder right near thee adult, mouths open, while she picked off chunks of suet and fed them to her young,

[Tijeras_Slim]

5 bluebirds in one house
7 chickadees in another

At the range, two ravens and a cactus wren in a cholla.

[Fishtalk]

Only bird that sings in winter…wrens.

Gift from God.

[Paleo Pete]

Bluebirds nest every year in boxes I built, Carolina Chickadees took over one of them this spring,no idea how many little ones. Prothonotary Warblers usually nest in the one in the front yard, but haven't seen them this year.

Build your own residents - Tufted Titmouse, Cardinals, Carolina Wrens, Summer Tanagers, Orchard Orioles, BlueJays, Mockingbirds, Mourning doves, Inca Doves, Red Bellied woodpeckers, Pileated Woodpeckers, Ruby Throated Hummingbirds nest here but I've never located a nest.

I probably forgot a couple.

I usually get pictures of most of them around the yard or on the bird feeder or bird bath. Always a few around, it's not often I don't see 2 or 3 scouring the trees for a snack.

One of the Prothonotary Warblers a previous year at the bird box. Sorry if it's too big, I can't get the size tags to work right.

[Fishtalk]

You made ME like him.

[Fishtalk]

I once worked for a Baltimore hospital, famous for having Al Capone as patent.

Ole Al loved a room by the hospital’s huge crabapple tree.

When I worked there the mockingbirds loved that tree as much as Al Capone.

First thing they all learned, from baby up…Imitating an AMBULANCE!

[Jane Long]

We have cardinals, as well.

They return, to the same spot, every year.

The best year was when I got to film them, from my breakfast area window, teaching the baby to fly.

[Fishtalk]

Nice.

Handsome.

[setter]

We have a pond with numerous geese and this year record # of gosslings. Must of been the extra cold February.

[stars & stripes forever]

I never knew we had so many bird species around here...

You must be my neighbor. Birds galore here too.

[Fishtalk]

I planted a whole row of bushes Fown my driveway…a “living fence” as it were.

Cardinals love my bushes.

I, of course, love my cardinals.

[Jane Long]

We have a loooooooong hedge, along one side of our property, that they seem to ignore.

For some reason, they love the two loropetalums, closer to the house.

Maybe they feel better protected from the snakes/critters, closer to the house. Not sure.

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

Mine have been crappy builders this year. First real windy day I had to pick up 3 that blew down out of my few trees. Most I have had blow out any prior year was one. The thing is the wind gusts were in the 40 mph range. Nothing real bad. Seemed odd. Nests were tight and held together well. Did not hold in the trees though.

On an aside, the doves have built a nest in my back gutter between the end and the downspout where it will not get washed out. Who knew the dumbest birds would be the smartest builders this year.

[Fishtalk]

Cardinals like to nest us high in a Bush.

Not sure what a loropetalum is.

Got a picture?

[shotgun]

Great. My swallows are back which means my wasps will soon be gone.

[dainbramaged]

We have a pergola with 17 hanging flower baskets and a Junco has nested in one of them.

[Fishtalk]

😊

[LibertyWoman]

One of the groups I dearly miss from Facebook is the bird group(s) I belonged to. One of them was for the native birds of my state of Missouri (I think each state had their own).

So interesting. I have an area outside my home office window that has a 4x4 pole with suet cake holders nailed to it and two sides are for feeders. I've had chickadees, titmice, grosbeak, indigo buntings, bluebirds, red-tailed hawk, cardinals, gold finches and red-headed finches, woodpeckers and the nasty ass starlings. No bird houses though.

Can't keep anything out there for the damn coons coming up. Got a baffle and tin sheets nailed to the pole and still, the little battards manage to get up to the top. Received my new baffle (different design) that I have to put up.