American goldfinch
Sapsuckers and homemade suet
I’ve been taking some short walk breaks at work during the afternoon, and on several of them late last week, I was thrilled to see my first yellow-bellied sapsucker! They are such cool birds! I love how they go around the tree in a circle and make these perfect horizontal rings of holes. Not great for the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Hummingbirds, hummingbirds!
Hi, all! Not much to say today, but I took a lot of pictures this morning and yesterday, so here are some of my favorites. I finally got my camera on a nearby goldfinch today (very briefly). We need to get our thistle feeder replaced so they’ll once again be frequent visitors in our yard [...]
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