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 […]
For those of you who are watching the cam now and have been for the last 20 minutes – I just scared up a fawn who ran right across the bird feeding area! You should have seen him on the live stream! The fawn is now hiding in the wide strip of stuff we have […]
We have a few Mallards living here with us on our small lake and occasionally, they will come to forage on the ground under the feeders. There was a pair under the feeders yesterday. The Mallards on our lake are more skittish than the Mallards you will see in city parks or places where people […]