If you are like me, you would place your bet squarely on the male Common Grackle – and I would probably have been so confident I would have made a larger bet than my normal $.10 – maybe even $.25! – and I would have lost my quarter. If you were watching the bird feeder […]
The crows are redecorating. I could hardly believe my eyes the other day when I looked out our windows at the small birdbath which you can see on the birdfeeder cam. There was a crow, sitting on the rim, and moving the stones all around with its beak. It was actually picking the stones up […]
Take a good look at the goldfinches at our feeders over the next few weeks and you will witness a remarkable change in the males. They will change from their drab winter color of grayish-brown with sometimes a hint of yellow, to a mottled mess of golden yellow and that same drab grayish-brown, and finally […]