Archive for July, 2008
Can you solve the mystery bird?
Okay, time to play a game…name that bird. Here’s a blurry picture (that will make it more fun) of a bird from this morning that I don’t recognize. Its back looks greenish-yellow, and it seems to have a gray head, but what is it? I honestly am not sure, so I’m opening it up to guesses [...]
Hummingbirds on the horizon…
Happy Monday morning to everyone! Hope y’all had a great weekend full of fun bird sightings. We were on the road again, but here are some pictures from Friday morning at our house. I really like the cardinal on the left here…sometimes cloudy days make for the best photography. You can also see the new birdhouse [...]
Family Birdwatching!
Hello again! I thought I’d start today with a little glimpse into our family life…this morning my son and I completed our first-ever bird house project! It’s one of the ones they give you for free at Home Depot on Saturday mornings (a very cool feature). My son did all the nailing, and then [...]
Bluebird eating from hand VIDEO!
Just a quick entry today but a fun one…it’s the video I had mentioned a while back of our bluebird eating out of my hand! It’s the male bluebird, and so far he is the only one who has done it, though the female has come very close now on a few occasions. I’ve also [...]
Bluebird pictures and a towhee!
Greetings! Lots of fun bird pictures to show you today, and of course the bluebirds are the headliners, except for this very cool butterfly that landed on some really bright green leaves in our backyard. Butterflies aren’t birds, but they do fly, and it adds some fun color right at the top! This blog gladly [...]
Bluebirds, nests, and a hurt baby?
Wow! Our bluebirds are definitely back! Saturday morning was a flurry of activity with the male actively recruiting/lobbying for the female to start another nest in our nestbox and the female eating all the mealworms we would supply. Each time she flew close to the box (he has officially reclaimed the spot as his perch [...]
Bluebirds coming back again?
Great news! As I was heading out of the house this morning, the male and female bluebird both made an appearance at the deck! Even better was their trip over to the nestbox, which they both entered and re-explored at length. The mama blue was inside for awhile with the male blue hanging on the [...]
Two robin eggs in a pear tree! … (but no partridge)
So yesterday morning I got the ladder out, climbed up into our tree, and this is what I found…two blue robin eggs! They are bigger and brighter than the bluebird eggs we just had, almost double in size difference. I’m not sure how long they’ve been there, but the mama robin is actively sitting on them. [...]
Eastern bluebirds yield spotlight to…a robin nest!
Hello again, bird watchers! The news from the weekend is that we have another nest! A robin had built one in a tree right beside our deck without our knowing it, and she is now sitting on eggs. So, after watching the whole process with our beloved bluebirds, it appears we now get the same privilege with a different bird! I know far less [...]
Bluebirds are back…plus how to keep squirrels away!
Yeah! Our birds are back! I guess all it took was a day or so to realize that the food supply was back home, and then everyone was here again. We’ve seen both adult bluebirds and the juveniles from the first brood, but no sign yet of our new bluebird fledglings. Last time they stayed [...]
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