DAILY BIRD PICTURES, VOLUME 389

Black-capped Chickadee

And finally, a female Downy... she thinks she is hiding from the Starlings on that limb! LOL!

Elphaba, Love that Hooded Warbler!

VA, So glad your enjoying the new lens. Love the pics especially the Great Blue Heron!

LOL WR, it's funny to watch the wp , trying to hide like that........... Me think your Cardinal wants to be a Waxwings.............. Very great shots with that 400!
You did good with the shot of the Hooded Warbler Elfy.
Teddy it's nice to see the changing color of the Goldfinch. Spring is a great season.
Margaret, I love your Doves.
Hum Hum, I'm turning green, about you getting a hummer already, Lily. ;)

Awww, Wild Rose congrats on your new lens. I'm green with envy actually. Elfy the hooded warbler is one of my fav. I wished I get to see more of them here. Margaret, where are those Doves coming from? Asia? Like the hummingbirds they travel far and wide, don't they? Big smile Burn, I've a second Ruby-throat hummer arrived yesterday. Poor guy was chased away from the feeder by the first arrival. I need to name them.

Male Northern Cardinal;

I am also green with envy, I am so ready for the little hummers to come back, our neighbor gave us a couple of those little feeders that only one can drink from at a time and of course we still have the bigger one. It will be interesting to see how many we get this summer with all the flowers I have planted. Several of them are hummingbird favs like the purple iris, and I am going to try my best to get a picture of a hummer on a flower.

Great shots, Wild Rose. You'll have such fun with that lens.

Kim, I'm sure that the smaller Laughing Turtledove is from Africa (It's also known as the Senegal Dove) and the Spotted Dove is from India.

Elphaba...loved your Hooded Warbler too...so handsome!

Va Rose...great series of shots!!

Teddy nope you can keep any Hosp you have!! lol

I have nectar made and cooling right now. Have had sighting in Indiana AND I saw something fly by the front porch this morning that was small and VERY fast. Not saying it was one but it could have been......

Sooner or later I will be able to get out and maybe get something different but until then, our favorite woodpecker!

Like I said before, I keep watching for the pl wp, and this morning I stepped outside and heard him loud and close. So I grabbed my shoes and took off to where I heard him at, the mud had dried and when I stepped on it, it cracked and he fell silent, I still say I never knew such a large animal could hide so well. I am trying to figure out a way to put something on my upside down suet feeder to attract the pileated, I think maybe he is afraid to try the feeder because there is nothing to hold onto except the suet cake holder and that aint very big. Do you think it would scare him away if I put a piece of something for him to brace against as he eats upside down? Or will he eat upside down? Any advice would help. Right now it is swinging on a chain, I know that chain is strong because a squirrel was on it and it did not break.

Teddy, cute pictures of your wp.

Lily congrats on the new hummer.

Margaret, your dove and turtledove are so sweet. Wonder how they found their way to your area?

Elphaba, your little warbler is just beautiful.

VA, beautiful photos, all of them! That vulture sure is better looking than our red heads.

Nanny, you don't need something different-I love the pileated!

Our crows continue to gather sticks for their nests.

One of our Mourning Doves.

Love that favorite woodpecker nanny!

Pretty Dove duc!

teddy...I believe that the way your feeder is now that there is just not a large enough area for it to cling and be able to reach the suet & eat.

could that be the reason that the northern flicker left? I was seeing them once in a while, then all of a sudden they were gone. Here was the last pics of them I have, do you think changing the suet feeder did it?

Northern Flickers have never come to any of my suet feeders and I have 4 different styles.

Out of the 4 the upside down feeder gets least used.


*** Mrs_Ed will be starting the new thread soon***

Flickers are just not reliable visitors in my experience and this has been mentioned before. The Downy's are the ones you can count on to come everyday. The rest are not ones you can really count on to show up everyday. You just have to acccept the fact that they find food from a number of sources besides your (or your neighbors!) suet feeder and you really have no control over it. Mother Nature does it better then we do!

You are fretting way to much over all this. I would love to have a Red-headed Woodpecker come again. We had one once back in 2007. Haven't had one since. Why....who knows!! I suggest you get in the habit of walking around your neighborhood with your camera and seeing what you can find. You just might even come across that Pileated while your are out!

This photo is from back in 2009 in a yard just down the road from my house. If I hadn't been out walking I would have never seen her! You can't wait for them to come to you....you have to go looking for them!

Oh I wish we had them (Pileated) here but there only in northern areas of our state for the most part.

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