A typical day in my yard

I am new to the forum and I have been looking at all of your wonderful pictures for a couple of days. To introduce myself I thought I would post some pics showing a typical day in my backyard. I have too many feeders to count at this point. I live in the eastern panhandle of WV. My latest obsession is the Baltimore Oriole. I have oranges, grape jelly, orange streamers and nector out for them but haven't gotten any yet. I hope it isn't too late! I got a little excited today when I saw that all of the oranges had been sampled but I quickly realized it was 3 new Gray Catbirds and not an Oriole. Oh well, at least the Catbirds are new to the yard!

The only guys I haven't gotten a picture of are the Carolina Wrens that I have nesting near the garage.

One of my Blue Jays looking for some more peanuts...

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One of my Cardinals looking for safflower...

One of my chickadees. I think Carolina but could be black capped.

My chipping sparrow...

A dove watching from over head...

A female cardinal and some house finches...

Forgot the picture

One of my beautiful tree swallows sitting outside his nestbox...

Welcome, little! I have only been here a couple of weeks, and I'll warn you.......it's addictive! There are some great folks and I have learned a lot already. Great minds, and all that!

You are certainly brave to post pictures first thing. Good job! It took me a while to get up the nerve.

We have Orioles stop by for a brief stay every spring, but this year, they are hanging around a little longer. Maybe, maybe they will nest close by. Ours usually arrive right after the hummingbirds, when the columbines and dogwoods are blooming. Keep your fingers crossed!

A red bellied woodpecker eating from his log...

A close up of one of our mockingbirds. These guys are so brave!

Yellow finches on the front porch!

I would love to have tree swallows. I know people in my part of MO have them, but I have never even seen one. Lucky you!

One of the Catbirds I mentioned eating on my oriole feeder...

A nasty old house sparrow... Taking a break from trying to nest in my bluebird houses

Male house finch...I can't tell them from purple.

A female downy... don't have a good picture of the male.

My cute little white breasted nuthatch "walking" down the tree.

A white crownded sparrow...

An American Robin

A white throated sparrow

And one of the Canadian Geese that nest near the house. They come back every year. We call him "Colin".

A female purple finch... I only know because someone on another forum told me it was a purple.

A red winged blackbird.

And finally.... the guy who tries to eat the others every evening. What I believe is a Coppers Hawk.

Very nice pics little!!! Welcome to the Bird Watching forum!!!

You have a great variety of birds there!


Pelle :-)

Welcome Little! It was nice to visit your yard and see the wonderful variety of birds you have! Hope to see you often here!!

Terrific!!!!! Looking forward to more photos!

Wonderful pic's! Thank you! It seems your territory/zone have the same selection of 'feathers I have. I'm wondering about the hawk...possibly a "sharp-shinned"?

Hi little, Why don't you post that pic in the Bird Identification Forum to get a positive ID from Resin. Heres the link:


http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/f/birdid/all/

Pelle

Yep, Carolina Chickadee for the chickadee.

Last one I'd say probably Sharp-shinned Hawk, but it is hard to judge on the pic here.

Resin

Great pictures Little, nice variety.