Bird Watching: DAILY PICS VOL. 105, 0 by thymewarp13

thymewarp13 wrote:
This is such a great thread, with wonderful pictures of some of my very favorite birds. It's not just the beauty of some of these birds, but the fact that they never or rarely visit my own backyard. I'm really jealous of your Red-breasted Grosbeaks, Mrs Ed. Although I've seen Grosbeaks in my own yard once or twice, most of the ones I've seen were at the local nature center, which is the only place I've ever seen the beautiful Indigo Buntings. I still remember the excitement of going to my bird books to try to identify the first two Brown Thrashers that ever made an appearance. I don't think they've been back since.

With the assistance of a birding expert I have ID'd Baltimore Orioles while on a bird hike, but if I've ever had any visits to my yard, I wasn't around to see them. I did try putting jelly out once in hopes of luring some, but I discontinued that after attracting a slew of hornets instead.

Thanks for your input re my Cooper's Hawk, Resin.

As for my Dave's Garden membership, Pelletory, my first year will be up on May 27th. I'm so sorry now that I didn't take advantage of it earlier. I'll just have to be very, very active in the next few weeks to make up for all that lost time.

The catbird on my birdbath visited last Sunday. I don't get catbirds very often, and I was concerned that this one allowed me to get as close to it as it did. A few years back I rescued a catbird from a roaming neighborhood cat. Unfortunately he didn't survive the attack.