Daily piccies vol 411

Here's a closer look at it-sure wish I'd gotten a clearer photo, but I'll probably never get this lucky again.

Very cool duc! Great catch!

Duc, that's AWESOME! I can't believe he has both feet around the other's bill. I didn't even know they did that. Amazing!

Very cool duc!!

I found out that the hummers we have like the sugar water better than the store bought ones, so we filled up the big feeder and I put some petroleum jelly on the hook to discourage the ants, and we filled up both of the little ones with fresh cool sugar water. Will put some jelly on the little one tomorrow, maybe it will stop them for awhile at least.

Thanks for your nice comments girls.

You did great Nanny with the Pileated WP, birds are hard to photograph, as they are always on the move.

Duc, wow, one in a million shots of the Hummers, great catch!!!

Elphaba, glad you got your Bittern, is it a lifer?

I thought the Swallows had already left, but found this Barn Swallow today.

will the jelly at least slow the ants down until we can get a spray can cap? We just filled the feeder up, we don't want the ants to spoil the sugar water until the hummers get to eat it. Mama hummer came back today and perched and drank for about 3 minutes while we watched, we thought she was going to burst!Lol!

Wonderful shots, everyone. Duc, that Hummingbird having the other one by the beak is astounding.

"28" parrot (Port Lincoln Ringneck)

Pink and Grey Galah (male)

Great shots all.

Love the woodpecker, Nanny. You really are a Pileated magnet. Truly the Queen of the Woodpeckers. Congrats on seeing all of those Pileateds.

Duc, those hummer shots are fantastic!

Margaret, love the color on the Galah.

Burn nice shot of the swallow. We had four of our swallows return today, but they just kept flying past us and not landing on the deck railing.

Margaret, beautiful photos of the parrot and galah-both would be awesome to see.

Here's one of my Brewer's Blackbirds looking at us through the window.

This female House Finch stopped by too.

And a young Oat Titmouse grabbed a piece of peanut before it took off.

awwww....that OT is so sweet!


Look what family came to our house this morning!! lol

I did get a nice one of the juvie male by himself.....

This adult male Baltimore Oriole has been here since Wednesday. I am trying to enjoy him every minute I can!

Wow, nanny. Lucky you. Love the one with three of them in the frame.

Nanny, That juvie male is adorable! love the other shot too.

Duc, Nice shots!

Ok, nanny_56, how do you do it? I would love to have a Pileated eat where I could get a pic but if I put the suet cake on the tree, the squirrels would have a hey day with them, how do you keep the squirrels from eating the suet before the birds get it?

Margaret, your parrots are just BEAUTIFUL! Can't believe that you get to go out and see that all the time.

Burn, the least bittern is not a lifer but truthfully, I have yet to get a really good look at one. Tried to capture some swallows while I was there, but didn't do it. Love yours.

Duc, nice blackbird!

Nanny, soooo jealous! Lovely family photo. Send that baltimore down here!

teddy, the squirrels do eat the suet....that is just a fact of life! It is a sacrifice I make to have all these woodpeckers come to my yard. Really it is only really, really bad when I have the squirrels, jays, grackles & starlings hitting the suet along with all the woodpeckers. There is about a four week period where I fill them almost everyday...but I buy cases ahead of time and get stocked up now so I am ready for it.

Elphaba, the orioles are on their way for sure! Lots of them in the area right now on the way south! I enjoyed hearing them on my walk this morning.

The house sparrows are the ones here that really go through the suet. And then the starlings when they are around.

We use the suet with red pepper & the squirrels leave it alone. If you make your own, I would sugest adding the pepper.

Okay guys...I declare Warbler Season open!!

Magnolia Warbler on my morning walk today!!

Eastern Phoebe too...hearing lots of them. I know lots seem to have already left....the ones still here sound so sad, like they have been left behind.

Ruby-throated Hummingbird on the wire....always cracks me up!

Lots of Gray Catbirds have already left but still have some around!

Still some Barn Swallows around too.....

. ..and the Queen has spoken. Long live the Queen of Warblers! Nice ones your highness!

So far I've had two species of migrating warblers this fall -- yellow and black and white. Didn't get a pic of the B&W. Here's a yellow.

and a fluffy orchard oriole.

Carolina wren in hanging basket behind ribbons hanging in my window.

Red-bellied.

Whoa! great pics. everyone. Too many to mention individually, but the one-in-a million shot hummer by Duc is outa this world!!!! I got a shot of a different Jay from out West.

Not sure which this fella is. Pic. taken in Santa Fe NM.

Canyon Towhee it's! Wooohooo, got me-self 2 lifers lol. Thanks Resin.

This is a domesticated bird, but pretty! Peacock at a road-side Cafe that we stopped for lunch while visiting Albuquerque-Santa Fe N.M.

A pair of the pretty birds 'conversing' with each other. :)

Yet, there are more.... An albino form? Never have I seen one that's pure white before.