Feeding Wild Birds

[TwoCrows]

 

[sourland]

Spent an hour on the beagle club porch. So hot and humid I never saw or heard a bird or animal. Bird feeders were empty so they must be feeding early and late. Last night a coyote was howling in the hayfield to the West. Turkeys must know they never came in to eat today.

 

[R2elk]

Looks like a Collared Dove egg to me.

They have very fragile nests and there have been high winds the last couple of nights.

 

[R2elk]

California Gull

 

[5Australorpasaures]

California Gull
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Or as we call them here in Jersey, Sky Rats.

 

[5Australorpasaures]

Temp drop of over 20 degrees has sent the Hummingbirds into a frenzy this morning, 21 stations taken with others trying to get a seat, get to mixing, Pal!

 

[ValerieJ]

Or as we call them here in Jersey, Sky Rats.

Wait...I thought that was pigeons we called sky rats....

 

[CatInTheHenHouse]

I’ve had what I think is a juvenile bluebird come visit. The birds are a lot braver around my deck this year, I think its all the trellises I put up. More perches for them, and harder for the hawks and owls to get in.

 

[5Australorpasaures]

Wait...I thought that was pigeons we called sky rats....

Seems there's a lot of rats around, city and the shore or collectively, rats with wings.

 

[Finchbreeder]

The Red Tailed Black cockatoos have been plentiful (for a bird that is in low numbers round the state) in our area this year. When the flock is collecting to head out to the evening roosting site have seen up to 39 (yes I counted fast)
They have adapted to eat the seeds of the White Cedar - not a native to my state. So they visit my place and Mums regularly as we both have these trees. Sometimes as many as 10 birds, sometimes as few as 3, in the visiting group.