If you're looking for cheaper prices for birdseed, check out Ocean State Job Lot.
They have 50lb. blackoil sunflower seed and 25lb. thistle for $20.00 each.
They also can have cheaper prices for suet (when the season calls for it) as well.

Just a little FYI.

went there
 

sold out in west boro

Probably not uncommon, I just never saw it before. Easily 5 times recently hummingbirds have shown up at my feeder and landed on the feeder or the iron post that it hangs from, stopped flying and perched for a bit.

COOL but not so Cool
 

this tree house must be weird to be in
watching birds come crashing into the glass mirror

Almost invisible mirrored tree house built in Sweden | Yahoo! Green


oont ya

Couple pictures from this morning. The goldfinches are around all the time, but I wasn't out more than 2-3min when the hummer showed up!

finally have two hummingbirds fighting over the front feeder
and with the cooler mornings ->feeding at 15 minute intervals

my smaller sunflower seed feeders are emptied every other day by those goldfinches
and the RBG's, goin thru prolly a quart of seed .... they's a munchin

will do experiment.... 2nite .....and fill it at midnite to see if some 4 leggers are helpin

they are sure eating my big tomato's --> bastids

Nice shots,PRB. :btu:

Rav, do you have any problems with bears knocking down
your feeders?

nope just damned racoons in the corn thus far,
but i just harvested it all so that ends that...
we ate some raw its so sweet...steaming some now for lunch

what a mess they make of it
....and hard to catch them in the act too....

because i'd chase em down with my old fashion weed slicer
shaped like a golf putter....
and lop their heads clean off...
next year!..... i'll have sleigh bells in the corn :uhuh:

i need a Super sharp samurai sword -LOL

hummingbirds everywhere now !!
 

finally got up to speed here
the hummingbird flower mix is now in full bloom
the seed mixture is most excellent i must say

now i have 3-4-5-6 :huh: battling for turns....

wicked cool because i'll be standing there watering the flowers
and the hummers go into hover mode with their tail feathers
fully spread (full flaps) and lookin large.....as they kinda "moon walk"
in forward motion every so slowly waiting to chase off the intruders

glass house kids
 

Huey and Duey

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Nice shot Rav, :btu:

Amazing, their beaks are larger than their heads a this point.

Great pic... That nest looks like a lot of work...

what will the be when they grow up?

doh!!! :wall: Robins -> there ............Tin Man :uhuh:

yeah
 

shocked the Sh1T outta me.... it was an amazing piece of construction i thought.
"precise mud work" like stucco
i hadn't been down there much.....
for say 2 1/2 weeks after straining my back..

(from carrying my table saw upstairs from the cellar... 2 days later i go hunched over)

the place was over grown allot ...so much so i had to weed whack the whole area again... :doh:

and suddenly i see the nest... oh great! i said...reaching in to feel for eggs
~ and there was already one....
otherwise, i would of moved it to the outside of the structure.

Like how do I know that, tinfoil boy

:cheers:

"To know nature is to put oneself in perfect harmony with the universe.
Heaven and earth are one. So must we seek a discipline
of mind and body within ourselves." -Caine

Interesting site yesterday in Quick's Hole: thousands of swallows hanging around and flying over the water. Didn't really see any fishing....I've attached a video but you really can't see any details of the birds: the bright, flashing spots above the water. What you can see is the relative roughness of the conditions and this was not the rip area!


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Went to the Raptor weekend at the Audubon in Bristol today.Very cool.

I always enjoy watching the southern hawk migration.
Should be starting soon. :)

So when do people start feeding the birds again? I still have summer buds hangin around, I normally have hummers until around Columbus day

anybody put up winter boxes for 'warmth sheltering' any success?

you'd have to heat those with a lizard mat
for the birds to wanna use them

Alas,
I haven't seen a hummer in 7 or more days. I think it's starting....

Anybody else have hummer's MIA?

We don't even put out hummer feeders. Our Flowering Cherry tree and all the other flowers about the yard have been attracting them like crazy over the past few weeks.We get one for some strange reason likes to hover at our front picture window.

We'll be putting out our Fall feeders this weekend.Hopefully my Sharp-Shinned Hawk comes back this year.

I put my fall feeders out this week

Still bummed about no hummers, just doesn't seem the time

FYI: A Tractor Supply store opens today on Bay Rd Taunton (Exit 9 off I-495) and they seem to have a huge section of pet supply stuff, including wild bird foods of all kinds. Might want to check them out, I did a quick walk through the store last night.

Damn, I's been waiting for them to show up, that's 5 min from my house

Cool

Not on their website yet though

right next to BJ's right?

Yes, should be able to see it from 495, google earth shows a large pad being built

Yes