Carolina wren
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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