DAILY PICS. VOL 21

Same here seemama!! :-)

The condition of the sock feeder is being brought to my attention. (I didn't know birds knew those kind of words).

That's better.

It's about time!!!! :)

Love that last shot....the sun on the birds is wonderful. My shot is of a female Cardinal taken this afternoon, first day using my new camera.

I know everyones going to ask so I'll beat them to it,lol. :-)

Very nice pic!!

Whats your new camera?

My new camera is an Olympus SLR, the Evolt 500. Just getting acquainted with it right now.

A pair of mugwumps..............a mugwump is a bird who sits on a fence with his mug on one side and his wump on the other.

Nice pic adel. :-)


gardenpom, Congratulations on your new camera!

Thanks Pell, I'm hoping for many happy years with it!

Just saw my first Hummingbird this fall! Got one bad pic, but so happy to see him return.

Can anyone identify this bird? It may be that the pic is so bad the bird is not recognizable to me. I'm curious about the one on the left.

I was going through pics from the summer and saw this - don't recall seeing it before.

I may be wrong, but it looks to me like either a female or juvie red bellied woodpecker

Look like a juvie red bellied wp.

I'll check on 1 more thing.

Ditto on juv Red-bellied Woodpecker

Thanks everybody.

Adel: Mugwumps. LOL!

White-crowned Sparrow (I hope).

Your right adel it is a WCS. :-)

Day is done...gone the sun...

Dim early morning light means blurry pictures but great breakfast crowds.

Nice setup Dave! :-)

Looks like a good camera gardenpom. congrats!!

Nice pics everyone.. (just catching up now) :-O

Dave's hummer pics were just amazing!!

I was a bit busy seeing a baby M. Dove back into the flocks. It was displaced by a split tree in my front yard. He was hanging out around the tray feeder and the E. Collards were pecking on him so much that I put him in a cage out by the feeders for a few days. One more peck and it could have killed him. The cage was to recover from the shock of losing his home, and keeping him safely fed to get his strength back. His parents had not shown up for almost a week.
For the past 3 days I left the cage open during the day. Yesterday he flew out and found his mom and dad, and he's been hanging around with them ever since then. It was kinda played as I went along here. I realized how domesticated many feeder birds have become even more than I suspected. They need to stay as wild as possible... Sure I feed them to get a closer look, now I continue to because of how dependent they have become. Go figure.

debnes

Nice job debnes!!!

The towhees are still here, and

they have found some one to pick on.

LOL! Thanks adel! :-)

The birds came today looking for BOSS and found it. The doves.

The cardinals

The sparrows

The chickadees

The nuthatches.

I still have hummers.

Nice pics Frank!

I love the Brown-headed Nuthatch!

Their call sounds like a little squeaky toy. :-)

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Brown-headed_Nuthatch.html#fig1

The nuthatches and chickadees seemed to follow a routine. The chickadees would come first and land on a branch. As soon as they jumped down to the feeder the nuthatches would take their place. Then after the chicadees flew away with a BOSS seed the nuthatches would jump down and get theirs. This routine went on time after time without change. The nuthatches never came unless the chickadees came first.

Frank: Great photos. May i ask what you do for squirrel "deterrence". You seem to have a couple of open feeders, so do you have baffles?
Deb

Deb, I started feeding squirrels first. I got into birds because they started coming to the squirrel feeders. So I don't worry about the squirrels at the platform feeders. The only problem I have had from them with anything hanging was one of the seed balls. Frank

Frank: So the squirrels pretty much stick with "their" feeders? I've thought about feeding them separately but I was afraid I'd just attract more of them. They gobble up anything in an open feeder that they can get to - and they can get to almost any of them. Then they come looking for seed on the porch where I have a glass jar of seed. I used to keep it in a plastic one, but they chewed through it. They've even chewed through the screen to get to it. :)
Deb

Well, do you talk to your squirrels and explain to them how things have to be done?

LOL! Great shot.
But, yes, I speak to them, and they just give me that look. :)
Deb