moving water in backyard birding (1 Viewer)

|8.| This afternoon I went out into my yard and set my water hose onto mist and turned it up into the air and stepped back. Within 3 minutes I had quite a number of beautiful birds. Drinking from the puddle (BROWN THRASHER) , hoovering in the mist like hummingbirds (YELLOW RUMPED WARBLERS), all fluffed up bathing and sitting in the puddle ( brilliant scarlet NORTHERN CARDINALS, a perky CAROLINA WREN, HOUSE FINCH, PINE WARBLER), bathing in a nearby red hisbiscus bush (teeny BLACK CAPPED CHICADEES and their buddies, TUFTED TITMICE), diving through the mist (striking BLUE JAYS, NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD), sitting on my sycamore tree trunk soaking in the spray (a curious BROWN HEADED NUTHATCH).

WOW, What a great way to spend 30 minutes on a lazy Sunday afternoon in a hammock in your own backyard!



P.S. My new camera arrives this week , and I plan to get pictures next time.

SEE YA, BECLO

Hi Beclo - welcome to Bird Forum,

Sounds like a perfect afternoon in the garden - quite a little collection of birds that you have going there. There's nothing more pleasurable than enjoying some nice birds in your own garden in my opinion. Things have thinned out a little up here in Ct but I was pleased to find a Pine Siskin using my feeder and birdbath this morning - it obviously has decided to join the local flock of goldfinches for a while.

Luke