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Archives for April 2021

In Defense of the Brown Headed Cowbird

April 30, 2021 Elizabeth

For my Feature Friday today I chose the brown headed cowbird. It's nesting season and with so many more people watching birds and setting up nest cams and the like, lots of folks on the internet are seeing their robin-sized brown speckled eggs showing up in their nests and the … [Read more...]

BirdWatching, Blogging Bird Feeders, Bird Photos, Brown Headed Cowbird, Cowbird, Featured Friday

New to Me! Pine Siskins Visit

April 28, 2021 Elizabeth

This winter I joined a bunch of different backyard birdwatching groups on Facebook and I've seen people all throughout the South talking about sick Pine Siskins on their feeders. There were huge salmonella outbreaks and folks had to take their feeders in for 2 weeks or longer to … [Read more...]

Bird Photo Booth, BirdWatching Bird Feeders, Bird Feeding, Bird Photo Booth, Bird Photos, Pine Siskin

New Sighting – White Throated Sparrow

April 25, 2021 Elizabeth

I'm really working on getting better at identifying sparrows and learning more about their behavior. For a long time, I just wasn't interested in them. Small, stripey, brownish mostly ground feeding bird, sparrow, moving on. I'm clearly partial to woodpeckers, but I've been … [Read more...]

Bird Photo Booth, BirdWatching, Spring bird feeder, Bird Photo Booth, sparrow

Squirrel Proofing Platform Feeder Cam

April 24, 2021 Elizabeth

This is Steve's first attempt at putting a baffle on the TPost where we connected the bird photo booth after his first adjustment. We need to have it close enough to the platform feeder so we can get good close up shots. Yet, we have to make sure that squirrels cannot get up … [Read more...]

Bird Photo Booth, BirdWatching, Squirrels Bird Feeding, Bird Photo Booth, Bird Photos, dove, Red Winged Blackbird, Woodpecker

Feature Friday – Red Winged Blackbird

April 23, 2021 Elizabeth

I'm going to try something new for as long as I can stick with it and it remains fun. :) I'll try to feature a different bird each Friday and share a video and/or photos here. Today, I want to feature the Red Winged Blackbird. We see these pretty regularly in the spring … [Read more...]

BirdWatching Featured Friday, Red Winged Blackbird

Finch Variety Show

April 22, 2021 Elizabeth

This video compilation is from a few weeks ago, but I realized I had it set to private! Here's a video taken on the tripod setup on a VERY windy day. Several finches stop by, a male american goldfinch who is just coming into his breeding colors, house finches, maybe a purple … [Read more...]

BirdWatching American Goldfinch

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