Hi everyone! It’s Cindy here. It’s been a few weeks since I showed you some of the birds in our yard. Last week our first Baltimore Oriole showed up (pictures to come at a later date) so we put up our orange feeder. Today we were surprised by an unexpected visitor to the orange feeder. (As always I recommend you click on the image to see a larger view).
Black-throated Blue Warbler on orange feeder
Black-throated Blue Warbler eating from orange feeder
It was a bit of a shock to see him sitting and feeding on the orange feeder since warblers are usually insect eaters, but according to Cornell University’s All About Birds:
Black-throated Blue Warblers search leaves and twigs for spiders, flies, and caterpillars, often taking them from the underside of vegetation. On the wintering grounds they supplement their insect diet with fruits.
He spent quite a bit of time using the orange feeder throughout the day but also landed on other perches.
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Since warblers are usually foraging among the leaves of trees and shrubs it’s such a treat to have one land in the open to get such great pictures of him.
Another bird that before today I wasn’t able to get any pictures of was the Common Grackle.
Common Grackle
Until this year we’ve never had Common Grackles spend much time in our yard and we were fine with that. They are often bullies to other birds that try to use the same feeders. So far they haven’t been too overbearing to the other birds.
What’s down there?
Even though this bird looks mostly black, I just love how their colors come to life in the right light.
Lastly one of our favorite birds that nests in our yard every year is the Gray Catbird. Today I was lucky to catch one after a successful hunt for some natural protein.
Do these bugs make my beak look big?
You may have to click on the image to see what he is holding in his beak but I think it might be some inch worms. Yummy!
I hope you enjoyed seeing some of the birds around our yard. These are only a few of the birds I was able to photograph today but I will save some of the other pictures for later.
I’m joining the Wild Bird Wednesday blog hop. You should stop by and see some more birds.
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Nice birds
Beautiful photos of all the birds. We enjoyed learning about the warbler. Piper does not like oranges, but he LOVES a piece of apple of a leaf of lettuce. Thanks for sharing your lovely photos.
Woos, Lightning and Timber
Those are such fabulous photos, well done!
Hari OM
The grackle sparkles as starlings do in the sunlight; but I suspect, like starlings, they may become a tad too dominant. What fun to have the warbler pose like that! YAM xx
That warbler is absolutely gorgeous. And your photos are tack sharp!!!!! Thanks so much for sharing! We don’t have them here…
Such beauty around us in the bird life! Point Pelee, a bird migration site, in Southern Ontario, is the only place I have seen a Black-throated Blue warbler.
We don’t get masny warblers here, though.
Such gorgeous bird photos!
that are wonderful photos… it is so great to see bird tv that way ;O)
All of the birds are just beautiful!
Those are beautiful photos! That orange feeder is interesting. Is it home made? I might try to put something like it together.
Wow, what beautifully exquisite birds! Can’t decide who’s more handsome, the Grackle or the Warbler. Beautiful images, Cindy.
so pretty!!!! Love that orange idea!
Would never have thought about the orange…I’ll have to try it. Love seeing the birds. Great photos, too. I chuckled at the Grackles…my father had a seasonal war with Grackles. They’d fly over our pool and drop things in it!
What wonderful moments you captured. The picture of the grackle gives me a new appreciation for their coloring!!
These are pretty good birds
What pretty birds, we have catbirds here but Mom has never been able to get a picture. Sometimes they mess with Mom when she is calling us to supper, they sound just like a cat to her. So she goes hunting the cat that must have got locked up somewhere, MOL!!!
I wonder if that catbird is feeding some young.