Bananafishbones
Incoherently Rambling .....
mine has been completely opposite - very quiet
A bonus though is the Bullfinch is back (just the male on this visit)
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Very busy at the bird feeder today! (1 Viewer)
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mine has been completely opposite - very quiet
A bonus though is the Bullfinch is back (just the male on this visit)
EK_Birds
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Plenty of potential here, really quiet and rural, hopefully have more to report soon!
Thanks, looks like all that wishing paid off ha ha
Bananafishbones
Incoherently Rambling .....
Blimey - 3\4s of the lawn is under an inch of water - good for the 4 Robins that are feeding on the fringes....... what chance of a mallard
We put out peanuts in their shells and the Blue Jays absolutely line up to take them.
Jeff
Dwayne
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First time I've seen a Red-Headed Woodpecker on my feeder! Downy and Red-Bellied are regulars, but this one's new. An Eastern Bluebird has also been coming by frequently the past few days. Aside from that, the usual groups of Titmice, Cardinals, Chickadees, Carolina Wrens, White-Breasted and Brown-Headed Nuthatches, Goldfinches...
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bongofury
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Haha, pretty good going by some of the media pictures I've seen over the last couple of weeks.
Nice shots. Just wondering what the weighing scales are for at the back of your bird table?
Dwayne
Member
It's a thermometer actually
Last week the average high was around 102F/39C, I decided to add a thermometer for the live webcam viewers.
bongofury
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It's a thermometer actually
That makes more sense! That's very hot.
Nice feeders!
Great bird to get at your feeders! There are lots in our area but they never visit us. Downy and Red-bellied WPs are a different story.
Jeff
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It's a thermometer actually
How easy was it to set up your live webcam?
Jeff
earleybird
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question for UK garden birders. Are Great Tits frequent visitors to your garden ?
I have been trying to ID a Tit in my garden and exhausting my few reference books I searched online at a few major bird photographer's sites and found no images of Great Tits at all ? Some had no Blue Tits either.
Are these birds so common that nobody bothers to photograph them ? I find it hard to believe that bramblings and Redpolls are more common garden birds that Great Tits.
Anyway at the risk of confirming my complete ignorance of bird ID'ing I posted a few images in the ID section
I thought the bird was bigger than a Bluetit although it has the blue tit eye streak It looked to be about 140mm+ long which is Great Tit territory I should have thought anyway apparently its definitely a juvenile Blue tit so I need my eyes tested lol
I have been trying to ID a Tit in my garden and exhausting my few reference books I searched online at a few major bird photographer's sites and found no images of Great Tits at all ? Some had no Blue Tits either.
Are these birds so common that nobody bothers to photograph them ? I find it hard to believe that bramblings and Redpolls are more common garden birds that Great Tits.
Anyway at the risk of confirming my complete ignorance of bird ID'ing I posted a few images in the ID section
I thought the bird was bigger than a Bluetit although it has the blue tit eye streak It looked to be about 140mm+ long which is Great Tit territory I should have thought anyway apparently its definitely a juvenile Blue tit so I need my eyes tested lol
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Dwayne
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Yep, the birds definitely appreciated the birdbaths on the platform last week!
It's a new visitor for me, and looking at the ebird data, it's not all that common in our area, either. It's been showing up in the mornings the past few days, with a little luck, maybe it will nest here like all the others.
It's not terribly difficult. I have my webcam in a housing attached to the platform. It's connected via a long cable to a laptop inside. The laptop inside runs Flash Media Live Encoder, a program provided for free by Adobe that allows you to convert a video source (the webcam in this case) into an RTMP stream, the type of multimedia stream that can be played by a flash player for example. By sending this stream to a broadcasting site such as justin.tv or ustream, you can allow as many people to watch as you'd like, without being limited by your home internet connection. :t: If anyone would like the link to the page, you're welcome to PM me. I had the link posted in the "live webcams" subforum, but my post was removed, and I was never told why. *shrug*
Got a few more shots yesterday and today with some new visitors! The adult Bluebird has been visiting the past week, and yesterday it brought along its new family, three baby Bluebirds! I'm expecting some young Red-Bellied Woodpeckers to visit any day now, too. This morning was very busy, at one point there were 9 visitors at once!
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Not there yet.... But if I throw them they fly from the tree and grab them.
Bananafishbones
Incoherently Rambling .....
I love the birds playpen - a brilliant set up :t:
Thanks for the info. Maybe I'll try to set something up. Wouldn't get as much variety of birds as you, though, cos we have small yards and are in suburbs.
I got the link by going to your profile.
It's the best bird webcam I've ever seen.
Jeff
Mr Cooper hawk living the easy life.... Found an unidentifiable mostly eaten adult, lots of grey baby bird feathers.... Had red and grey tailed hawks before but never had the proficiency of this guy. Any ideas anyone? I know nature has It's own code but this guy not playing fair.