Archive for August, 2008
Rainy day blue jay!
Hi! We’ve been dealing with the stormy remnants of Tropical Storm Faye here in central North Carolina, so I’ve got some wet bird pictures to share with you today. I love cloudy, rainy days for taking pictures outside…you get some really nice shots, and the green colors seem to come alive. Everything just “pops” a little [...]
Carolina wrens enjoying the deck!
Today I’m going to need to do mostly pictures and not much writing. Lots of Carolina wren pictures, a very plump goldfinch, a small yellow-gray bird I haven’t figured out yet, a juvenile towhee, and a rabbit in our yard this morning.
This weekend, we stained our deck and I finally replaced the broken red seed plate. My son was a great [...]
Hurt, dazed, or sunbathing birds?
Hello, and a happy Friday to you! The photos are really coming in now…everyone is taking me up on my offer to send them in, and it’s great! I’d love to include at least one reader-submitted photo in each blog entry, so please keep them coming (you can email me your pictures at dheiser@wncn.com)! Today [...]
Birding delight…Tina shares her pictures!
Have I got a treat for you today! All the pictures in this blog are from Tina in Pennsylvania. She emailed me some of her recent favorites, and they are great! Plus, they add some fun variety with some different birds. At right is what looks to be a female downy woodpecker (males have a small red spot [...]
Baby goldfinches making a racket!
Greetings, folks! Some fun stuff happened this morning that I’m excited to share with you, the first being that a whole goldfinch family suddenly showed up in our backyard! The place went crazy with squeaking, as we had two adults feeding on the finch sock, three baby goldfinches anxiously waiting in the tree, and one very [...]
Fun birds and gorgeous weather!
Wow! What a beautiful morning to be out bird watching today…pleasant breeze blowing, Carolina blue skies above…absolutely glorious! I refilled and cleaned our hummingbird feeder last night, so there were some happy hummers this morning. Next project is replacing ye olde seed plate. You can see from the Carolina chickadee picture below that the red [...]
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Goldfinches, baby towhees, and a hungry bluebird nestling!
Hi, everybody! I’ve got some really fun pictures for you today, including a reader-submitted bluebird photo! I’ll start with the news that we’ve finally put a finch feeder (filled with thistle seed) back up, and the goldfinches are loving it. The old one had been decimated by hungry squirrels and house finches, and it was [...]
Tanagers and orioles yet?
Welcome, and a very happy Friday to everyone! Allow me to pass on a quick update on our recent orange experiment…we are in stage one of attempting to attract scarlet tanagers and/or Baltimore orioles to our yard. You can see one of our orange halves below that we’ve placed around our backyard, and so far [...]
Attracting scarlet tanagers and Baltimore orioles with oranges?
Greetings from the Heiser backyard, where the goldfinches have mounted an attack on the chickadee and titmouse food supply! This morning we had a beautiful male American goldfinch camp out at the seed plate for several minutes, long enough for me to snap some fun pictures. I love their bright yellow color right up against the black wings [...]
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