We love seeing all the birds around our yard. Here are a few of our regular visitors.
Gray Catbird
Many birds love our mealworm feeder. We made a small change to this feeder by adding a baffle to the stand.
Female Eastern Bluebird
The main reason for adding the baffle is to keep the chipmunks from pigging out on the mealworms. It has worked perfectly and so far this year we haven’t been going through as many mealworms as we have in the past.
Male Eastern Bluebird
This pair of bluebirds are our second pair of the season. We have two bluebird boxes on opposite sides of our yard. The first pair in the north box have successfully raised their young. The second pair of bluebirds were aggressive towards the first pair so after the babies fledged the first family left the yard. The second pair of bluebirds are now sitting on eggs in the south box so we hope to see more babies soon.
Male Ruby-throated Hummingbird
It’s too bad the hummingbird didn’t turn his head just right to catch the sun on his gorget. We are again hosting a male and female Ruby-throated Hummingbird so we hope to see some young ones in a few weeks.
Don’t forget you can click on the images to see a larger version.
I hope you enjoyed this glimpse into the birds we see around our yard. I’m joining the Wild Bird Wednesday blog hop. You can stop by and see some more birds.
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Beautiful shots!! Love all of your feathered friends…We don’t usually see bluebirds in our corner of the world, thanks so much for sharing!
xoxo,
Jakey, Rosy & Arty
Your birds are pretty
We mostly have great big scary crows. Xox Xena and Lucy
Purty burdies!!!! We don’t gets many blueburds, butts we gets lots of Hummers!
We do gets Bluejays, butts they are asses. ☺
Thanks for the wonderful photos! Your camera is working out FABulous!
Kisses,
Ruby ♥
we love to watch the birds and their daily habits, they sometimes act like people LOL
We loved seeing your birds, we wonder if your hummers or the same ones that visited us earlier in the year. Wouldn’t that be neat?
We love the birdies! We have lots of cardinals in our yard.
Lovely!! we had robin eggs but never got to see the babies.
hugs
Mabel & Hilda
You sure have some nice birdies visiting at your house! We’ve been seeing lots of gold finches and cardinals lately.
Your birds are so pretty and photogenic!
Love your bluebirds; but hummingbirds are special. We didn’t know chipmunks ate mealworms. We thought they just ate nuts.
Okay, I tried to look up baffle and it only gave me ‘confuse’. Which I am slightly. What on earth is a baffle??
Love the birds. We don’t get bluebirds in the Netherlands, nor hummingbirds.
Hi Mara, We will try to take a picture of our baffle. It is more accurately referred to as a “squirrel baffle” so maybe if you searched for that you can see what they are. It is usually a domed shaped device either below (if the feeder is on a stand) or above (if the feeder is hanging) a feeder that keeps squirrels and chipmunks off the feeder.
You featured two of my favorites…Bluebirds and HUMMERS!!
Hugs Cecilia
I loved the enlarged detailed on these!
Your new camera is doing an amazing job! I cannot believe that you are already on a second set of eggs. Our bluebirds are lucky to get one brood per season (and us to see one brood!).
Charlee: “Birds.”
Chaplin: “Birrrrrrds.”
(both start chattering)
Lulu: “You guys are weird. I mean, it’s not like they’re squirrels.”