A Great Time to Watch the Livestream Bird Bath Cam
Families! Most especially House Finch families. We must have had a whole neighborhood of House Finch nests. You can easily pick out the males – their red heads and upper breasts are still a brilliant red that just glows in sunlight. The juveniles are brown and striped all over with darker shades of brown. They look just like the females but are often messy and untidy – the adult females will be neat and sleek. If you look closely at the juveniles, you will see bits of down sticking out all over the place. Families are bathing together right now. It is not uncommon to see 8-9 finches all taking a bath at once.
We had at least 2 robin nests this year in which the young successfully fledged. One at our garage door – and another in one of our large trees in front. I think there were also 2 more nests in our back yard trees – quite high up. Once the young fledged, we no longer saw them anywhere around our house. Now – about 4-6 weeks later – all are back and you will see adults and juveniles at the bird bath. The juveniles are starting to get longer tails and their breasts are either less speckled or not speckled at all – just pale and rather colorless. The adults still have their brownish-red breasts. Robin adults and juveniles will bathe together.
There is a female Ruby-thoated Hummingbird foraging amongst the flowers in the vicinity of this bird bath and you can see her flitting around the flowers from time to time – most especially in the late afternoon.
The Baltimore Orioles are still here but there are not as many. We did have 8-10 and now have about 4-5. The juveniles are starting to disperse. These orioles are also early migrators and will begin their journey south in mid-August – about 4 weeks from now.
The Gray Catbirds are still here and in the same numbers.
As far as we know, instead of the usual 2 pairs of Brown Thrashers, we only had 1 pair this year, but both come to the bird bath from time to time. They are generally within sight of each other but rarely come to the bird bath at the same time.
There has also been a Northern Flicker at the bird bath – not every day, but several times a week. It does not always bathe, but it always drinks.
And although the Common Grackles love the 2 bird baths you can see on the bird feeder live stream, there is 1 that is now coming to this
large bird bath and it is a treat to watch him bathe – it is a male. The water flies! He has been coming every afternoon for about 2 weeks.
The Mourning Doves are using this bird bath more and more right now. The days have been hot and quite humid and these are big birds who like to lower themselves in the water and just soak a bit – I can identify with that!
From now until about the end of August is a good time to watch this livestream. You may have to watch for several minutes before you see any birds, but when you do, you will most often see birds either one right after the other or they will be there in groups – these are families. You will see lots of interaction.