Today at the feeder (1 Viewer)

[cavan wood]

I was curious if any others have had house finches coming to their hummingbird feeder. I was expecting the oriole, but not the finches. They are regular visitors to the feeder, both male and female.

Scott

 

[amkid247]

ive been so happy this week! woodpeckers galore! all of my old "friends" are back. my downies and hairies still come everyday like usual but lately have had male red-bellied woodpecker who comes to eat suet and clings to the cage around my squirrel proof feeder and eats from that, and yesterday i had a male northern flicker! i have some pics but the zoom isnt too good.

 

[amasara]

Gee, thanks, Sara. You sent them north to me.

Yep that's him!! Do they nest on PEI? I only have photos left to remember until next spring! Had a window kill this a.m. - grackle (too bad) - I have feeder hanging on the outside of this window to educate the birds.....

 

[Euan Buchan]

Feeder has been filled with Mother Blue Tit's feeing their chicks & Wrens

 

[snowyowl]

I'm back from my trip west and north only to find that most of my birds have left me. naturally all of the feeders were empty by the time we got home. I refilled them and but so far it's been House sparrows, grackles and a lone Blue Jay.

 

[amkid247]

I'm back from my trip west and north only to find that most of my birds have left me. naturally all of the feeders were empty by the time we got home. I refilled them and but so far it's been House sparrows, grackles and a lone Blue Jay.

yes i am going away for all of next week and i need to find a way to keep my birdied here! i think i will ask my uncle to feed them for me.

ive had a male red winged blackbird come to my feeder for about a week now again. but yesterday i noticed some birds that were different. it turns out they were the females! well at least one female the others were chicks im assuming (they were smaller than the main one they were following around)
so i have a whole family here!

and im happy b/c apparently my downies have made a baby boy! he came around by himself a few days ago =] first known woodpecker chick now im waiting on my hairies for a baby

 

[amasara]

I spent this morning herding baby c.wrens - they nested in a box in my garage - hardly looked like enough space for them - saw 3 prs of closed eyes when I sneaked a peek last week - seemed featherless - today they fledged!
Parents were having a fit - I opened both garage doors but the kids kept going to the window - once I rounded up the cats to remain indoors today - I caught all 3 kids and put them outside with their folks! Got a few photos but they are not still for long. Seems I used the wrong camera to upload - anyone know how to change file size?

 

[James M]

Lots of birds visited today, a few Blue Tits and Great Tits lots of House Sparrows, a couple of Starlings, some Goldfinches and Greenfinches, a Dunnock, Jackdaws, Collared Doves and a beautiful male Bullfinch.

 

[michellebeddoe]

Iim having trouble with a load of jackdaws, which are eating me out of house and home and frightening the smaller birds away, but today when I went out into the garden Mr and Mrs Blackbird were waiting for me so I sprinkled currants on the floor and they ate them by my feet knowing they were safe from the jackdaws there.

 

[amkid247]

today at my suet feeder a young male woodpecker (offspring on my two downies) came alone, and then what i assmue is his mother came with his sister and the mother was feeding the young female the suet. then they ate the bugs out of my dead tree. yesterday at my seed feeder i had my first chickadee in months since the grackles arrived.

 

[snowyowl]

I've stopped filling my feeders for the last few days. I've had an invasion of grackles and House sparrows. I'm also overrun by squirrels and chipmonks. I'll live trap the little guys and re-locate them. I'll start my feeders going again when things settle down and some of the grackles and sparrows have moved on.

 

[do re meep meep]

Change of food preference

I feed a mix of sunflower hearts and peanuts. In the past, the peanuts were more popular with my birds, but in the past week, the sunflower hearts were more popular with the same birds, strange!

Anyone here who had experienced any changes of food preferences too?

 

[Euan Buchan]

Lots of Blue Tits on the feeder today

 

[snowyowl]

I've had a pair of Gray partridge hanging around the the driveway and garden this week.

 

[cavan wood]

Each spring we have baltimore oriole show up at the hummingbird feeder for a few days and then they leave the yard area for the rest of the summer. This past week we had the pleasure of an adult male returning to the feeder with a juvenile in tow. I really should install an oriole feeder to make things easier for them (as well as the house finches).

Scott

 

[amkid247]

Today i took some pictures of my clinger station =P
Chickadee
Same Chickadee
Female Downy!

 

[snowyowl]

Nice to see that your feeders are drawing the birds.

 

[falco sparverius]

What's at my feeder today? Just the usual...a flock of house sparrows, a pair of purple finches, a pair of house finches, three grackles, and half a dozen bluejays, with four mourning doves pecking around on the ground, and in the elderberry bushes by the window two juvenile American robins, two female American robins, a female rose breasted grosbeak, two cedar waxwings and two Eastern kingbirds. Love watching the robins in the birdbath, they enjoy it so much!

 

[gkrpepper]

Got to take pictures of Blue Grosbeak, Red bellied and Downie Woodpeckers, Mourning Doves, Cardinals, House Finches, Titmouse, Carolina Chickadee, Blue Jays, Carolina Wren, Brown Thrasher, and Squirrels at the feeders, Northern Mockingbirds, Robins, and Common Grackle on the ground, RubyThroats still at the feeders and flowers. Not a bad morning.

I guess the Prothonotary Warblers and Indigo Bunting moved on, haven't seen them in a week

Still waiting on the Pileated Woodpecker to come back for a better shot

Gunter

 

[amkid247]

Heres todays guest at the clinger station:
*GASP* A Cardinal!
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Chickadee-dee-dee
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This Blue Jay fell out of the sky onto this statue as i was looking out the window O__o
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Can u find him here?!
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