Backyard bird watching

[FishermanTim]

In addition to cardinals, yellow finches, chickadees, slate colored junkos, tufted titmice, nuthatches, starlings, purple finches, sparrows, red headed woodperkers, common flickers and one turkey.
During the spring we await the return of the Baltimore/orchard orioles.
I've made a number of simple birdhouses over the years, and we have a number of returning birds from a number of generations over that same timeframe. We love listening to the birds and by keeping them fed during the winter, they return the favor by revouring mosquitos by the truckload. If you have the chance, watch the sparrows during the nesting season, and you'll see them fly back to the nest/birdhouse with their beaks loaded with bugs for their young.

[Raven]

especially when you tell them they are related to dinosaurs

i often marvel at the way nuthatches hide seeds

similar to the way squirrels hide acorns


this one nuthatch would tuck a sunflower seed up under the roof shingles at each cut in the shingle until every space was occupied
for leaner times.... fairly ingenious if ya ask me...

[Raven]

when i find these huge wood eating grubs
as i split wood...
i take them and put them right into the log feeder
out on the back deck




I waited like 5 minutes thinking a woodpecker was gonna get happy
then a titmouse grabbed it (the worm) and flew off before i could snap a pic. lol
he was a little faster than the man with the camera today

[thortum]

Originally Posted by Raven

when i find these huge wood eating grubs
as i split wood...
i take them and put them right into the log feeder
out on the back deck




I waited like 5 minutes thinking a woodpecker was gonna get happy
then a titmouse grabbed it (the worm) and flew off before i could snap a pic. lol
he was a little faster than the man with the camera today

Love that feeder. Those grubs would make tasty looking morsels for fresh water fishing.

[redcrbbr]

years ago i used to get a flock of evening grosbecks at the feeders. I havn't seen any in the past few years. any of you folks still get them?

[basswipe]

Still haven't been quick enough to get a pic of the hawk.

I seem to be having a grackle invasion the last two weeks.Seems kinda early for grackles?

[justplugit]

Originally Posted by redcrbbr

years ago i used to get a flock of evening grosbecks at the feeders. I havn't seen any in the past few years. any of you folks still get them?

Geez, i haven't seen grossbeaks in years. When i was a kid the rose breasted grossbeak was quite common. Did have a flock of cedar waxwings at the grabapple tree early last spring for a few days.
We have 9 Bald Eagles wintering over at the resivoir this year. Something to see them swoop down over the open water.

[Raven]

i havent seem for a long long time

perhaps allot of their favorite habitat has been converted to track homes...
or as you call them here, neighborhoods.... and if i remember correctly they are berry eaters.