Feeding Wild Birds

[sourland]

The jake from last year's brood is back. He's a really big bird - tall, but he hasn't bulked up yet - beard perhaps 3" in length. He's the only one who figured out how to eat from the low hanging feeder. Perhaps because he's the tallest?

 

[R2elk]

A black bird yesterday evening.

and a grackle early this morning:

Refilled in hopes the grackle would return, now nothing but sparrows fighting

The one it has labeled as a Brewer's Blackbird looks like a Common Grackle to me. The bill on a blackbird is different.

You really don't want the Grackle hanging around. They will run off most other birds.

 

[R2elk]

Saw a Goldfinch but by the time I got back with the camera the Grackles had run it off.

There are a pair of the Catbirds.

 

[alinas2010]

The one it has labeled as a Brewer's Blackbird looks like a Common Grackle to me. The bill on a blackbird is different.

You really don't want the Grackle hanging around. They will run off most other birds.

I was wondering if that “Brewers Blackbird” was accurate, but there were a lot of black birds around the neighbors house so I had no idea if it was from the same bunch. Maybe they were grackles too and I just wasn’t close enough to see.

Oh! Grackles are menaces? Ah darn I kind of like them, they’re so shiny and pretty.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Not great photos but I got orioles and humming birds like crazy this year!

 

[R2elk]

 

[sourland]

Robin's Egg Blue

 

[R2elk]

Guard duty

 

[OneMountainAcres]

I saw the first rose breasted grosbeak of the season yesterday. Technically DH saw it from a distance and thought it was a woodpecker and pointed it out. I had to correct him lol.

 

[ValerieJ]

There is some evidence that the wood ducks found a place to make their nest across the river. That is great news as their babies will be so much safer there. I am sad to not be seeing them at my feeder now. They haven't been here for a week, so I figure they are busy on the nest. It was so fun watching for them every evening.