Daily Pics Volume #56 (corrected)

Sorry I'm late starting the new thread. I am friends again with our state bird, the Northern Mockingbird. Pell had asked me to start the next thread and I didn't have a single decent pic that I hadn't already posted. So I went back to Brushy Creek with my camera.

I went to take the first pic, and the battery was dead on my better camera. It was getting dark soon, so I decided to use my little snapshot camera instead of running off to buy batteries. I was having a hard time finding a bird close enough to get a good shot without much zoom, when this beautiful guy posed so nicely for me at the top of the tree.

Here's where we came from:
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/805638/

Here is a cute little bird I saw at The Natural Gardener the other day. Not sure what it is. I'll post it at the ID thread, but if someone wants to call it here, that would work too. Such a cute face!

Thanks for starting the new thread Peeper! Very nice pics!

Heres 2 pics of a sweet Dark-eyed Junco peeking around on the spiral feeder.

Much too cold to be outside so these were taken through the window.

Pelle

I got a new bird yesterday!!!

Brown Creeper

Ooooppppsss! I got a little better pic than the ones I put on the ID thread.

Congratulations nanny!!!

Pelle

Hey Nanny, pretty good picture, especially considering how fast those little ones move!

Thanks! Your soooo right Mrs. Ed! He just was going around that tree in circles and only stopped on my side a couple of times!! lol

Some American Robins from the other day. GM

yah Nanny, I had TWO brown creepers on ONE tree one day and I kept trying so hard to get a pix. AHHH, fuhgeddaboutit.

Peeper...thanks for starting the new thread (almost had a stroke when I did it for the first time) and the pics of your cute birds!

Pelle...goodness, nice catchlight in the Junco's eye!! Good job!

Nanny...congrats on the new bird and getting a great pic. I've never seen one and will be on the lookout!

GM...love those Robins...does this mean Spring is around the corner?!!

Rose

Look what landed on my feeding station!! I believe it is an American Kestrel. I hope you can see it, the light was terrible but I think I goofed something up on my camera too!

Rose

Yep, American Kestrel

Resin

Mockers are cool PK, nice pic!

Neat you got a shot of the brown creeper nanny!

Sweet Juncos Pelle!

Rose, that is actually a pretty good pic of the Kestral, the face shows up well. I like it!

Nice to see Robins all around from here to NJ GM!

pelle, they are good shots for through the window!

nanny, I had a tree creeper on my oak some time ago, got a few pics which are on the European forum. They do run!

Good shot of the Eagle dellrose, it thinks that's it's feeding station too!

A little weak sun today but not for long, I managed to get one of the Chaffinch, it always looks to be in deep thought.

Robin eyeing the neighbour's bird table which she had put breadcrumbs on.

Robin in stand-off stance with a Sparrow, it shooed the sparrow off a few times until it got reinforcements.

Congratulations Rose!

Great pictures everyone! Looks like ya'll had some fun today!

My daughter's school was closed today because we got an entire inch of snow this morning (sigh), so we decided to make our first batch of suet. Guess we did ok since Ms. Downy was actually fighting off some sparrows to keep it for herself!

Very good indiana!

Which recipe did you use?

We kinda modified a basic recipe, because I'm always adding different spices, ingredients when I cook for myself, and I'd see things and think "oh, the birds will like this." LOL!! This is what we did:

1 cup lard
1 cup crunchy peanut butter
1 cup quick oats
1 cup corn meal
raisins
pecan chips
slivered almonds
thistle
a little songbird food

That was about it. Hope we did it right!!

Sounds great!

When I got up this morning(late, being the first of my two days off) I looked out and saw finches everywhere. I had noticed yesterday that some kind of flock of birds had come through and eaten all the feed. I restocked last night. The special things for the finches had never been used as far as I know. The first think I noticed was the finch sock.

Then I noticed a cheap walmart feeder that nothing had used before.

then I looked at the picnic table.

Wow! Frank had a Goldfinch invasion! LOL.
This was all that was at our feeders by the time I got home this evening.
Deb

Oh dear, I am so far behind looking at all these great pictures.

That's a lot of goldfinches. Looks like some are getting their summer colors back.

We've had snow here and it actually stayed around a couple days. Here's some juncos under the BOSS feeder. (1/19)

Deb, that's so funny. Squirrels will do anything to get bird feed...

Here's a cardinal pic taken 1/19

Yellow-rumped warbler 1/19

Another yellow-rumped warbler 1/20

House finch 1/17

The thistle feeder had been up all winter. It had never been used.

They had taken over my log trough.

And my bird photo studio.

Frank, I think the GF's were slow heading south this year. My thistle feeder was also very lonely until almost exactly 2 weeks ago. Then one day....there they were. Now we know how fast they move. 2 weeks from SC to MS. :)
Deb

Deb, that squirrel pic is priceless!!! wonderful, wonderful pictures, everyone....our flicker this afternoon....Deb

LOL, your Flicker really gets around Depsi!

Great pics everyone!

Thanks for starting the new thread...

But, please--I'd like to see Rita's saw-whet owl pic from the old thread again, Rita?!

Maybe a bit bigger? I'm looking for a saw-whet around our house--would love to have one...Is it nesting near your home?... thanks. t.