Anyone who has an outdoor space, no matter how small, has a habitat. The definition of habitat from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary: The physical environment that provides organisms with their basic needs for survival: food, water, shelter, and space. Our yard’s habitat was a savanna with a wide strip of woodland and our acre of property […]
Two things happen in the skies over our house in July, August, and September every year. The first may sound to you like we are part of nearby strafing run – right out of a WWII movie. Thank goodness that is not it. It is crop dusting time! We live in the middle of chemical […]
Today we will be taking down the feeders and thoroughly washing and disinfecting them. We will also clean the birdbaths and the rocks. The feeders will dry in the sun before we refill. All this takes about 2 hours. The birds do come to the area during that time – some will even sit on […]
Northern Flickers live here with us, but are not always in our yard. They come to the feeders from time to time in winter, but rarely in summer. We do see them fairly often on the ground with their beaks down ant hills – their favorite food. But right now, there are two who are […]
Blue Jays have been practicing tough love and the Common Grackles need to take a page out of the jay’s book on parenting. For the past few days, if you have been watching the birdfeeder cam, you will see juvenile grackles practically on top of their parents at the feeders – and screeching – and […]
If you were watching the birdfeeder cam this morning, you saw Blue Jays and heard a whole lot of loud, incessant squawking. The squawking was coming from three juveniles. They have their adult feathers but hardly any crests at all – all three heads are fairly smooth. When one of the juveniles was on the […]
You may have seen the injured male Mallard on the birdfeeder cam. Right now, he is coming to the area under the feeders about once a day – always entering from the right side of your screen. He is sometimes alone and sometimes with a female and from their behavior, they appear to be a […]
Vireos are often birds of the treetops. They are small and generally gray to olive green with some pale or white. These are not flashy birds by any means and once leaves are on the trees, they are just about impossible for me to see – with or without binoculars. But I can always hear […]
This morning we saw a Downy Woodpecker family at the feeders. An adult male and female and at least 2 juveniles – and there could be 3. The juveniles are just a bit smaller than their parents which you can see when they are together. They are also a bit disheveled and their black and […]
A big thank you to Cheryl Roberts of Serpentine Web Solutions for getting the birdbath camera up and running! There still may be a glitch or two but so far, so good! This birdbath has some morning sun, but is mostly in shade/dappled shade until about 10AM Central Time. From then until dusk, if the […]