Common Redpoll Love-fest

Beautiful!!!

None here now. :(

Oh!!!! He is a VERY handsome one!!

Very nice Rose, I'm surprise, he 's the only one, they usually hang out in groups.There might be others around close by.
Thank for the link to the feeder Marna, it's a nice one.

Another one with a lot of red.

Wow, here I am in Las Vegas and the temperature today was 68 today. Do not get mad. When you do not have low temperatures you have birds that look like the desert. Brown. The hummingbirds are hovering around trying to find spider webs to make their nests. I have the hanging socks and my numerous birds love it and the doves wait underneath for the scraps. I just refill them and last year the two lasted the whole season. I have junk bird seed and I live on the green belt about 10 houses above the golf course. I take large zippy bags full of the bird food and walk down to the golf course and spray it around by hand. There are Quail there and I need to find out what they eat. Anyway, this seems to keep the large birds away from our garden and leaves it open to the small birds, hummingbirds and dragonflies. I will try to take pictures tomorrow. I have a Koi pond about 50m feet from the bird feeders. My enjoyment is watching them take their bath in the morning. Even the hummingbirds take a bath each morning when it is warm. I do not put out hummingbird feeders because the females will stay away if the aggressive males are around and they always come to the feeders. I have climbing fig vine in the front court yard. We allow some of the vine to hang down. That is where the hummingbirds make their nest. Last year we had 5 nests and they were occupied twice with two separate babies. The bird family is really strange. My feeders are in the back landscape behind a two story home hanging from two large African Sumac. . The sock does not get sun until about 1pm. They ignore it until the sun is on the sock. In the meantime they are screaming in the front garden "Where is our food"???? It is really funny. I take the dogs for a walk every morning toward the green belt and they follow us up the sidewalk to the park and ******* all the way there. The attached is a nest with two baby hummingbirds just before they were ready to fledge. This nest was very low in the courtyard. I had to get up on a ladder to take the picture so I did not do it often. I talked to these little guys for over 5 weeks and after they fledged, they came back every morning when I was gardening. They would give me a few buzzes and then spend the day among the trees. It was so delightful I can not come close to tell you how wonderful it was. Be safe. I am so sorry you have such cold temperatures. I am sending you and your birds warmth.

The prior photo was when one of the babies either fell or was pushed out of the nest. I totally panicked. Did nothing but sit there. The baby finally got back into the nest. I think he was trying out his wings and failed. Three days later they were both gone.

Sory for he blurred photo. I will try to do better.

I was so nervous when I was that close I guess I did not get a photo not blurred.

The next is the Koi pond where they bathe.

Nice shots of the Hummers skwinter, how lucky you are to have them nest! I can't wait for them to show up here...please hurry! LOL!

The love fest continues here on the farm! The Redpoll is now comfortable here and has been fighting for his rightful place at the feeders!

Here is a shot showing an American Goldfinch sneaking up on the Redpoll.

contact!!

going at it...

taking it to another feeder...

staring contest...

Here is where the Redpoll was chewing out a Bluebird that landed next to him on the shepherds hook!

Last one..

Nice Rose. I love the tail in the "going at it" photo.

Thanks Marna...he was very active that day!

Beautiful Rose, and another spunky type bird!! lol

dellrose, awesome photo spread between the common redpoll and goldfinch. I think the redpoll won!

Excellent shots Rose! They are so cute!

Those photos were totally fantastic. You must have a great camera and lens. I agree the Redpoll won. We are having a wonderful weekend. It has rained a slow steady rain for two days, Friday and Saturday and moving back in for more later this evening. Even better, the mountains are getting snow that will melt and flow into the Colorado River. My garden thinks I have moved it to Oregon. I have set up a bird blind by my Koi pond behind a strawberry tree. The birds bathe in the upper part of the waterfall. I am just going to sit there and see if they will ignore me. I am about 4 feet away from the waterfall.

Beautiful shots, Rose. Love the attitude.

Wow Rose, nice . I'm glad to see he's standing up for himself.
Skywinter, those babies hummer must of been a sight to see.

A female waiting her turn.

One of these is a want to be. And the Redpolls out of the goodness of their hearts are showing him, how to get the seeds. Aren't they sweet.

Not much competition at that time.

Nice you guys.

I hope that these cuties show up again for the bird count!

Thanks for your comments everyone...our little guy has made the rare bird alert for our state. I always wonder what other birds are out there that I am not seeing!

Hope yours show up for you Mrs. Ed.

Burn...I continue to drool over all of your Redpolls...they really are the cutest and sweetest (unless a Goldfinch is trying to give them a bad time)!!

Beautiful pics guys. You are so lucky to have them.

A rare bird? No kidding. That's great. Are you going to do the bird count?

Hi Mrs. Ed...yes he is rare for the southern part of Mo. I am watching for him this morning but so far a no show. I plan on doing the bird count again this year...I enjoyed doing it last year. I won't have as many as last year because of the food shortage then but this year I will count at more places (like the different brush piles)! I am hoping to spot the Dickcissel as he is also rare for this time of the year.

oh yah, that's awesome. I think I'm going out to my friend's house where he's telling me there are horned larks and lapland larkspurs. or something like that *get's out sibley's before Resin corrects her…*

I hope you get to see those two birds...I know they are in the northern part of the state but I haven't seen any here.

DH just told he "the bird with the red top-notch is on front porch feeder"!! LOL...he's learning!!

ha. GOOD BOY! Glad you've got your own little Redpoll alarm!

Well not exactly 50 Resin although I have had some birders contact me to come and visit but the weather turned bad. I will have to alert the list that he is still around.

Be sure to have DH send the message "The bird with the red cap is here"

Yeh, someone else we all know and love ID's like that.

Yes, someone can really relate to that husband of your Dellrose!

A few pictures from yesterday. The snow under the feeders is black; with hull and seeds. But some take care of those, that falls down there. I sometime will not fill the the feeders for a day or so, so they can clean up underneath.

And not a common one, but a Hoary.