Daily Pics Volume #56 (corrected)

Your pet finches are very cute boojum!

Nice pics!

Debnes-In the blue jay photo above (1/23 10:27am), is that just a wire plant basket attached to a bird feeder? Very clever! That would sure help to keep the squirrels out around here (I'm sure some of them could figure it out . . .)

Woodpecker shot from today.

Squirrel dropped by for a visit.

Blue Jay and his prize.

Collared Dove "lovebirds".

Makin' Whoopie.

Yellow-rumped Warbler.

Mockingbird sitting on the top of a berry laden East Palatka Holly.

Nice pictures GP.I don't think I'll ever see that kind of woodpecker here. I get the Hairy and Downy ones here. One winter I got the big Peleated Woodpecker., that was a couple of years ago.

Boojum I really like your pet finches. How are they as pets?

This the Downy Woodpecker

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And Hairy Woodpecker, they were both at the feeder today got a picture of them together in the tree. I will try to zoom them in and post them here, if it comes out ok.

here they are together Hairy and Downy Woodpecker.

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Thanks, Burn. Mine is a red-bellied Woodpecker. I have seen a Downy a few times and also a couple Pileateds, but so far no Hairy Woodpeckers.

Nice pics you guys!! Your finches are really cool boojum!

Thanks D! Actually I put that upside down plant basket on the feeder so the Eurasian Collard doves wouldn't bully everyone around. Particularly one little baby Mourning Dove I had to watch after his tree fell and was displaced.
I bent places, (or stations) in 4 corners for them to fit their big shoulders through to eat, and they mind their manners, even when little dove was inside eating. I was so relieved!! One more peck and it would been curtains for the little guy.
All the smaller birds can fit in the other places, but the Mourning, White-winged, and ECollard have to use the stations to get in. Occasionally a collard will go inside and kinda dance around like, "Why did I do that??" and "Where's the exit to this contraption??"

And as for the squirrels..... they fit inside too, but we only have a few so the birds get most of the seed.

You could just as well keep the spokes straight and the squirrel would not fit at all. The doves like to be ground fed just fine, but when they get a chance they like to eat at this feeder.

Here's a closer look with some Mourning Doves..

A flock of Rock Doves making sheets of flashy jewels in the sky..

Society finches are great pets. They are quite wild so they don't care if you pay attention to them as long as you give them daily water and millet spray and food once a week. They have great fun bathing and flying back and forth and carrying nesting materials. These are both males because I didn't want them to breed. And they snuggle with each other all night. They sleep together in a food cup. They are messy though. I think they have who-can-fling-seed-hulls-the-farthest contests. And they sing like canaries but with one song.

How cute! Reminds me of the lovebirds I had about 25 years ago.

Great pics GP,debnes and boojum!

Haaaa too cute Boojum, what do you give them for nesting material?

That is cute boojum but you are right they can be messy.

My parents had a pair of finches (can't remember what type at this moment) and they would send seed flying out all over the place. :-)

I used to love the cute little sounds they made.

I think they were Zebra Finch.

When the clouds parted this afternoon, I grabbed the camera and started looking for subjects to photograph. The Bohemian Waxwings are unusually abundant this winter, and make excellent subjects.

I was surprised to find two American Robins feeding on crab apples under a tree where Waxwings were feeding.
This was the first time I had seen Robins in the area during the winter.

Great pics everyone! I loved seeing them all!

It's been too cold here lately to be outside taking pics and my photos I take from inside aren't good. I usually have been taking the photos inside with the window open while kneeling, but it has been too cold for that lately.

Marilyn

I tend to think of the European Starling as a black colored vulgar pest. However, the telephoto lens reveals a complex pattern of colors in the sun light. I'm still willing to send them back across the pond for Resin to enjoy.
Gary

LOL, very nice pics Gary!

After the Bohemian Waxwings are done with the crab apples what will they eat next?

Gary, I'm very surprise too, to see you've got Robins , I haven't seen them here yet.

I like the odd position of this Waxwing.

Gary your waxwing pics are to die for. I would be pleased as punch to see a Bohemian let alone film them. I've been looking in our flocks of cedars for almost 30 years! None so far. The first year I was here at the farm I saw flocks of robins in the sumacs. Haven't seen any this winter so far.

Great shots of the waxwing -you can almost hear the photographer say "ok, now bend your head, no a little to the side, no a little lower..."

Very nice pics everyone!

Deb...I like your clever feeding tray!!

Boojum...your pet finches are so cute!

Gary...love those pics of the Waxwings...they are such beautiful birds!

Nothing exotic going on here just the usual food fight at the fence post!

American Goldfinch!

Some of Dark-eyed Juncos

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My female Red-bellied Woodpecker's have been popping out of the wood work the last two day's!! I have id'd at least 3 different ones. AND Yes I can tell them apart if I look hard enough!!!!!! lol


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Very nice pics dellrose! I love all those Goldfinch and they certainly love you!!

nanny, How lucky that your seeing 3 Red-bellied Woodpeckers! They are such characters!

What beautiful shots of WWB, Gary!! Gotta love those hardy Robins too, and I tend to agree about starlings, though they don't come here much. Only in spring where they build a nest by my house, and they must eat somewhere else even then.

Sweet Junco and WP pics nanny!

And the goldfinch Rose!! :-)

Candid shot of Bewick's Wren

I know it's a bit blurry, but here's Bewick in a funny position showing the tail all fanned out...

Nice detail shot debnes!