Bird Watching: First time post - My Birthday Bird, 1 by Hineni

Hineni wrote:
Thanks ya'll :) Earlier this year I had a beautiful visitor of the predatory kind as well, attaching a few shots. I believe it is a red-shouldered hawk.

Betty, these turkeys come across a large pasture to rustle up some goodies from the tree slopes as well, but no barbed wire here. They've been in the neighborhood twice now since my birthday.

And, I am now officially a bird fanatic. We recently moved here, and as such our garage is still housing the as-of-yet-unpacked stuff. One of the items was my stereo, with a 100 Disc CD changer. Somehow the door to the changer got left open during the move, and a wren family chose that as their nest site. Since it's highly unlikely that we could retrieve all the nesting material bits and have the unit remain functional, I told DH to just leave the nest and let them have it. He looked at me aghast and said "Have we now officially become tree-huggers???" LOL. It is rather humorous to me that in all of this treed land, the birds are nesting in human elements: we have a nest also in the top of the basketball hoop, one in the hose holder, and now in the CD changer. What's up with them not using the trees????

Of course, if all goes well, that means we will get to view the whole life cycle of the nest, which will make it worthwhile for me :D

~Sunny