Daily Pics. - Vol. 334

Lily, we're in the mid to high 90's here too every day. Mama cardinal is so sweet. I wonder if both the flicker and the red-headed will make nests in that tree?

Nanny, that's interesting that your orioles are starting to leave already. I think I've lost some of mine but it may be because of too much traffic on our decks with the house painters. I have not idea what a baby dove looks like and have been wondering that same thing. All mine here look like adults.

Burn, what a beautiful Purple Finch. That chickadee is just the sweetest little thing! I'm very sorry for the sick dove-poor baby.

GG, your grackles are adorable. Hope that water was cool. I have to keep changing mine and ice cubes sure are melting as fast as I put them in.

This California Towhee was doing his/her mating dance along our deck railing.

Here's one of my orioles.

Hope you can stand just one more oriole photo. My birds are staying mostly in the trees to stay cool.

Great shots everyone!

I hear them GG.

Beautiful pics of the Orioles duc!

GG a great illustration of how the heat effects our environment with the birds seeking relief in the bird's bath. I water my garden, not only for the plants, but for the birds that take refuge here. These birds seem to jump up with joy when the springlers are on:

Great shots everyone ,I soo enjoy this.I got lucky this morning was out taking photos of our Corvette that is for sale,and I saw this Belted Kingfisher male ,I think.soo glad I went up to the driveway.

Nice catch there hg.

I just read about how KF nest or tunnel, and 2weeks ago I dicovered a digging site on our verticle ditch,about 2 ft down from the top...well we started having phone trouble.To make this short,i think the phone people digging around the same spot,phone digging to the left and ?? to the right(is abandoned now) .Has me wondering if the King Fishers were planning on a nesting site ???I will be watching very closely , there is a 27 acre lake across the road and 3 lg ponds and our wetlands within 1500 ft from us and less.What do you think ??? Its got me going... LOL

And she has been singing her tiny heart out all morning,I cant tell what it is ,wren??

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hg, I wished someone with more knowledge of the KF will chime in on their nesting behavior with us. The last two posts looks like wrens but I can't be sure which kind. They're cute little birds.

I've a pair of Cardinal nesting in my bamboos in the front yard. So I sent out more seeds on a hanging flatform-like feeder for the hard working pair. Guess who promptly claimed the feeder? A different kind of bird! LOL

Lily, cute photo with your cardinal. I don't think you can ever have too much water around for the birds. Our hummers love it when my DH sprinkles the lawn and the larger bushes.

Hugger, what a lucky photo ops for you. He's just beautiful!! The big plus was that he was sitting still for a couple seconds. I'll keep my fingers crossed that you've located a nesting spot. Let us know what happens.

I've really enjoyed seeing a larger crop of Scrub Jay juveniles this year.

This one looked cute up close.

This message was edited Jul 10, 2010 12:02 PM

Nice pics everyone!

I'll be starting daily piccies #335 in a mo, link to follow . . . and here it is: http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=7958009

Resin

This message was edited Jul 10, 2010 9:38 PM

Try this link to Resin new thread. http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1114376/