Bird Watching: DAILY PICS VOL. 254, 1 by plantladylin

plantladylin wrote:
Yes, it was really fun to watch so many babies and they were quite loud when the adults came to feed them! It was strange this year, we had a few Blue Jay nests in trees in our backyard and the neighbor behind us had a few Northern Cardinals nesting in her yard. The tree that is right in front of the one the baby jay is in is an old Camphor Tree and a pair of Downy Woodpeckers chipped out a nest hole and raised at least one baby this past spring. The female didn't seem to mind my presence in the yard and around the tree but the male got very agitated whenever I was out in the yard near that tree when he was around. I have a couple of pictures of the male Downy at the feeder and one of the female at the entrance to the nest cavity.

This is the male Downy at the feeder