Normally from mid-July until mid-September, there is not as much going on in our yard as in the previous spring and summer months, but this year is an exception. We continue to have a good number of birds at the feeders and bird baths. I am not sure how many House Finch families we had […]
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 […]
Cedar Bog Nature Preserve, Springfield OH 980 Woodburn Road, Urbana https://www.cedarbognp.org There is a fee to walk the boardwalk trail. Money well spent! Of all the places Cleon and I birded in around Dayton and Springfield, OH, this was our favorite. There is a Visitor’s Center with a small gift shop. […]
Woodman Fen. 2409 Newcastle Drive, Dayton. https://www.metroparks.org/places-to-go/woodman-fen/ Some birding places are easy to find – this one would not be so easy. Luckily its address worked on the GPS in my phone which took us straight to the small parking lot. This fen is part of the city park system of Dayton. […]
If you have been watching the bird bath cam livestream, you will have noticed that I moved the oriole feeder lower and closer to the bird bath. When I moved it, I was uncertain if the new location would work as it is now quite close to the bird bath which many birds besides the […]
Looking out our windows, I feel like a child again in Pennsylvania. Except I will be enjoying all this snow from inside our house and not outside playing all day with my next door neighbor Chip. Building snow forts, snowmen, and shoveling driveways and sidewalks for $5 – to be split between us. Those were […]
As of this past weekend, there are now two Pine Siskins from time to time on the platform feeder. Sometimes it is just the two of them and other times they are with the goldfinches. You have to look hard to see the bit of yellow on the wing-bars of the siskins’ folded wings, but […]
You have probably noticed a decrease in the number of birds using our feeders and birdbaths over the past few weeks. And some birds have disappeared completely. Regardless of where you live in the United States or Canada, if you have feeders, it is most probable you will notice a decrease in birds at your […]
We are in the midst of hot and humid weather here in central Illinois. July and August are always for heat lovers – and that is definitely not me. Give me long underwear, a heavy coat and hat, and I am in heaven! I love working outside and have gardens all around our house and […]
We started seeing Baltimore Orioles in our yard about 8 years ago – and the first year it was just 1 male. We think there was also a female and that they nested in the large trees in our neighbor’s yard across the small inlet that separates our properties. The following year, we saw both […]