DAILY BIRD PICS VOL. 372

This shot was taken back in Nov.

Purple Finch

The Flicker has become a regular visitor to the suet feeder. Hope he and the missus keep returning.

Mourning Dove from last month.

I love Flicker GG, wish they would come in my yard.

Sorry Burn, did not mean to cut in on your posting. This is the first year the Flickers have found my suet feeders. Yippee!

I am looking at your purple finch and trying to decide if I have had any at my feeders. I am still learning, and learning, and learning.

I find out, you NEVER stop learning.

Thanks for the new thread Pelle...I love that starting shot!

Thanks everyone for all the great photos you have been sharing on this thread. I have been bad and not doing much photography with this miserable weather. Hopefully it will warm up and I can head for the hills again. I can report though that tonight I had 5 Downys, 2 Hairys and 2 Red-bellied Woodpeckers in the backyard. Very cool to see!! There is also a pair of Kestrels that appear throughout the day and scare all the birds. I have at least 200 Goldfinch eating me out of house and home!!

Hairy woodpecker on the feeder today. With our snowfall of 20" the feeder has been very busy. The day afterwards I kept seeing a grey squirrel disappear into the snow. He had to dig, but seeds easier to find than acorns I would guess.

Oh my gosh 200 Goldfinch? Bless you Rose!

Iris, Bless you too with all that snow!

This has been in a friends yard in FL for 2 days now. What is it and why 2 days, its huffing and puffing.

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I have a question, if I sprinkle pepper in the mixed seed, will it hurt the birds, the squirrels are getting on the feeder more often. I don't think they can either knock it down or chew through the wire, but I am not sure. Any advice?

I doubt you can sprinkle enough pepper to deter squirrels, teddy. That little owl can live in my yard anytime. Great eagle pic, duc.

You know it's cold when the mallards are climbing on to pelicans to get out of the icy water.

Some Northern Shovelers feeding along the edge of the ice at a local lake.

Elphaba, love that photo of the red-tailed. Cute yellow-orange variant finch and red-winged. I love that pine warbler-wish I could see one here.

Pelle great shots. Hope that hawk didn't find the downy. It's amazing how all the birds know when there's danger closeby. Love that white-throated photo.

Teddy, glad your patience worked.

Julie, love that photo of your thrasher-such a great pose.

Granny, love that look on your dee!lol You have a handsome flicker there too.

Lily, that lord is just gorgeous.

Burn, great pictures of the starlings, redpoll and finch.

Rose, can't believe you're feeding so many goldfinches. See any pine siskins there with them?

Schickenlady, that owl is beautiful. Sorry, I don't know the species.

Red, those shovelers sure fit their name.

I have a pair of Brown-headed Cowbirds here with the blackbirds. Here's a female.

The Ruby-crowned Kinglets are such fun little birds.

The larger flocks of Robins have finally arrived to eat the berries on all the trees.

Here's one of the Robins.

This is either an immature or a female robin.

The Cedar Waxwings are enjoying the berries too.

We use suet packs with red pepper in them. that doesn't hurt the birds at all. I think that it would take a lot of the red pepper in seed in a feeder to discourage the squirrels but you can try.

Oh Duc, you've got the best pictures of the day! Robins are common down here, but I've never seen such large flock of them. Love all those berries eaters! Great shots!

On the feeder I have, there is a small tray which catches the seed, I wonder if I put pepper in that tray and the squirrels get a bit of it, do you think that would discourage them? I can sprinkle some in the tray and see I guess. They really are not hurting the feeder with that metal cage around it, I don't think they can chew through that metal, but I was just wondering.

Lily, robins gather in huge flocks here in the winter. We have a flock roosting in central Norman that was estimated at 330,000 by an expert in our CBC.

Another woodie shot.

In about 30 licks I'm going to try, lol, to start the new thread. Maybe mother nature will be kind to me.

Hack

Duc...those are gorgeous shots...everyone of them! Those berry bushes sure show off your beautiful birds. To answer your question about the Pine Siskins...we have had several show up throughout the winter, but it has been over a month since I saw the last one. I am still watching for them and am hoping that a Redpoll will show up also. Everytime I see Burns my mouth starts to water!!

Lily and Red...love those shots with the water..almost looks warm there but I know it's not!

Today is above freezing and the birds aren't in such a feeding frenzy as they have been for the past few weeks. Here is a shot of some of the Goldfinches...as you can see they take over the feeders!

This was taken a few weeks ago of one of my beautiful female Bluebirds at the mealworm feeder. It is right outside my kitchen window and I can just open the window to fill the dish with fresh worms. It is a nice way to see the birds up close but we have to freeze when they arrive to eat or they will fly off. DH and I look really stupid frozen in mid-step waiting for the Blues to eat!! LOL!

That was the wrong pic...here is the one with the feeder.

Last one just because she is so sweet.

That Goldfinch pic is amazing Rose and the female Bluebird is gorgeous!

Red, I thought it was noisy here with the robins, cedar waxwings and blackbirds, but I can't imagine what that huge amount of robins would sound like! Wow! Great shot of your woodie!!

Rose, love those goldfinches and Miss Bluebird is just beautiful!

This little Ruby-crowned Kinglet just loves the camera.

Here's another one.

The Ring-neck rooster is still a regular visitor here.. Each time he'd remain away a few days, I'd worry that neighbors might have done away with him. I have several with a "cuz I can" attitude, but they do seem to be accepting in this case anyway. They are aware of my love for birds.

Unless one moves too quickly, the rooster seems to enjoy people. He sometimes comes running when one of us goes outside. Yesterday he did a lot of preening and fluffing up while I was there.

That's a pretty boy! Tiger, lol. Look at that pose, he stretches and balanced! What a pose! Nice! and what's a pleasure to see him up close.

Some really great stuff on this thread. Here's my 2 cents worth.