Backyard Birding

[DrW]

6 hours ago, Irv said:

I saw this guy today through my screen.  

 

If you want a serious response, it is a Baltimore oriole. Most orioles they have stunning orange/black or yellow/black plumage.

[Irv]

 

18 hours ago, DrW said:

 

If you want a serious response, it is a Baltimore oriole. Most orioles they have stunning orange/black or yellow/black plumage.

 

Thanks.  If you look back a couple of pages I have an awesome shot of an Oriole from last year's quarantine.   Got a few more shots today while bored.  And before you ask, yes I do need to get a life.  

 

 

 

Another

Edited July 31, 2021 by Irv

[Irv]

And one more

[4BillsintheBurgh]

I'm on lockdown for now

 

https://www.wnep.com/article/news/state/dont-feed-the-birds-mysterious-disease-affecting-pennsylvania-songbirds/523-01ab1435-fcf4-47db-abed-44161d0b5a27

 

[RaoulDuke79]

1 minute ago, 4BillsintheBurgh said:

I'm on lockdown for now

 

https://www.wnep.com/article/news/state/dont-feed-the-birds-mysterious-disease-affecting-pennsylvania-songbirds/523-01ab1435-fcf4-47db-abed-44161d0b5a27

 

Same here. Haven't filled the feeders in a few weeks.

[dhg]

This guy has been haging out by moms house for a few days. Huge. They are usually by the power field next street over, but this one has come down by the trees on either side of my moms. We were hanging by pool today and he decided to chill with us for about 30 minutes. 

Edited August 10, 2021 by dhg

[Simon]

On 8/1/2021 at 1:54 PM, 4BillsintheBurgh said:

I'm on lockdown for now

 

https://www.wnep.com/article/news/state/dont-feed-the-birds-mysterious-disease-affecting-pennsylvania-songbirds/523-01ab1435-fcf4-47db-abed-44161d0b5a27

 

 

On 8/1/2021 at 1:56 PM, RaoulDuke79 said:

Same here. Haven't filled the feeders in a few weeks.

 

It's getting better.

 

Nice work, gents.

[PromoTheRobot]

My wife launched her own Twitch channel starring the birds in our backyard. This is live most days from 9am to 5pm.

 

https://twitch.tv/apljacker

 

Feel free to give her a follow. She needs to hit 50 to achieve status.

Edited August 11, 2021 by PromoTheRobot

[Saxum]

 

My wife has been very busy with work and has come home exhausted every day so has not had time to work on mixing wild bird food with our daughter.

Bird food mix was out so I told my daughter we will just mix it ourselves.

We went to garage where we bought some food for winter and I mixed some "Lyric Fruit & Nut High Energy Wild Bird Food" with the remaining mullet and the birds have gone crazy.  All 12 spots on bird feeder has been full for multiple hours at a time.  It looks like the kind of food you buy as snack in store.  There also is nothing left on ground too expect the millet shells.

[qwksilver]

This White Egret spent a few day picking the tiny lizards out of some of my bushes. 

[Bad Things]

This is one of my favourite times of the year for bird watching as this is when the Bar-Tailed Godwits fly their extraordinary migration flights from Alaska, all the way to New Zealand.  12,000kms non-stop!

 

Just last month, they tracked one poor bird that had to turn around midway through it's flight due to strong headwinds.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/451910/strong-winds-force-godwit-migrating-from-alaska-to-new-zealand-to-turn-around

[Shamrock]

We have a visiting magpie and Kookaburra family. Butcher birds, variety of large and small parrots, white and black cockatoo, cockatiel, tawny frogmouth nest Autumn/ winter. Do Flying Fox count 😇 night time there’s plenty. 

[Irv]

Anybody notice a shortage of bird food?  I usually get mine at Home Depot and for weeks - nothing.  Going to check again today.  

[Don Otreply]

We had at least eighteen different birds visit our back yard, from Red tail hawks to chickadees to three different woodpeckers jays, cardinals, etc etc, always cool to see them all, even had a pair of Mallard ducks every spring for several years, too cool, 

[qwksilver]

This Wood Stork came for a visit today. 

[T&C]

With the cooler weather, Florida, I hung a finch niger seed sock a week ago. They won't touch it but will eat the no melt peanut suet cake literally 8" away. I got it on a whim at Home Depot for $.80 , they are resetting I guess. In the last two months downy woodpeckers have settled in and eat quite frequently. They might be small but like their bigger counterparts they take no ***** whatsoever. 

 

I bought another feeder, it looks pretty cool... loaded with all the good stuff, but the only ones who will eat from it are the titmice... I think the perches are too small for the cardinals. So I'm going to buy a different one for that hook with either a small platform or larger perches. Got to keep the cardinals happy.

[Irv]

Got a neat close up today of this guy on my suet cage.  

[Irv]

Got a few more today.  Birds were really active.  The Dove was through my screen.  The Finch was through the window/no screen.  All taken from my cell phone.  Yes I am working from home and still need to get a life!!!

[PromoTheRobot]

We have a Carolina Wren that keeps flying/hopping through the dog door. Three times now. I don't blame it one bit. It's been brutal out. I think it wants to move in for winter.

[Saxum]

1 hour ago, PromoTheRobot said:

We have a Carolina Wren that keeps flying/hopping through the dog door. Three times now. I don't blame it one bit. It's been brutal out. I think it wants to move in for winter.

 

We raised a baby blue jay in our kitchen.  A little bit of a mess but were used to raising birds.

 

If you put down some peanut butter and sunflower seeds in an small area and not wander about.

 

 

 

If you had a dome over your house with entrance for it the Carolina Wren it would not have to come inside.