Backyard Bird Watchers

#455
#455
Just about every nesting pair around my property have fledged a brood - bluebirds, finches, Cardinals, thrashers, phoebes, even the red headed woodpeckers across the street. The red-bellies are precious to me because of their personality. A pair had called my property home feeding ground for a decade until the property behind mine was developed. The developers took down the tree in which they’d nested. Now, a pair has found a nesting place nearby and have returned to feed in my yard. 😁
 
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#456
#456
Blue jays are awesome parents. Their fledglings follow them around even when they’ve attained adult size and plumage, and the parents still feed them.
 
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#457
#457
The downy woodpeckers have taken to picking up seed from my feeder, flying up into the dogwoods, finding a niche, and hammering it open. This when the finches aren’t crowding them out. Same goes for the brown headed nuthatches, the chickadees, and the rare titmice. Titmice used to be regulars in my yard. Perhaps, the development impacted them as well.
 
#458
#458
The temporary calm at my feeder has the white breasted nuthatches visiting, too. Ha ha birds!
 
#459
#459
The red belly fledgling just landed on the sill opposite me. We had a moment eye to eye before it hopped to the dogwood branch nearby. We conversed for a bit before it flew away. 😁
 
#460
#460
Side bar: Green anole lizards are in my yard, which is free of pesticides and herbicides.

Edit: these join the tree frogs which have always found refuge, here. My storm water drainage system flows into a creek behind my neighbors’ properties.
 
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#461
#461
We've had cedar wax wings, a grey cat bird, and a family of redbellied woodpeckers recently as well. Oh and a pair of towhees, love watching them forage around on the ground.
 
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#462
We've had cedar wax wings, a grey cat bird, and a family of redbellied woodpeckers recently as well. Oh and a pair of towhees, love watching them forage around on the ground.
 
#463
#463
A pair of tohee birds have nested on my property every year, as have a pair of thrashers.
 
#464
#464
We've had cedar wax wings, a grey cat bird, and a family of redbellied woodpeckers recently as well. Oh and a pair of towhees, love watching them forage around on the ground.
 
#466
#466
RirlshVol, Noni, Vol30
You guys were correct!! The lil Hummers are back on the Cumberland Plateau, wife and I are loving it! She makes a quart of sugar water almost every day to keep the feeders full.
I do think the cold spell we had here in early May changed a lot of things this year. But now we're sure enjoying watching them feed, sitting on the string of lights we've got around the deck and watching their flying acrobatics.
 
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#467
JustFunnN'Orange said:
RirlshVol, Noni, Vol30
You guys were correct!! The lil Hummers are back on the Cumberland Plateau, wife and I are loving it! She makes a quart of sugar water almost every day to keep the feeders full.
I do think the cold spell we had here in early May changed a lot of things this year. But now we're sure enjoying watching them feed, sitting on the string of lights we've got around the deck and watching their flying acrobatics.
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Awesome! We're still waiting for our hummers to get back
 
#468
#468
For three days last week, the red shouldered hawks nesting near my property were calling all day long. I think their chick(s) fledged. They are quiet once more.
 
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#469
#469
Download the Merlin bird app, its amazing. You can use your phone microphone to identify all of the birds around you. It will give you examples of the calls and also replay what it heard to identify it in your yard. As long as there are no chain saws or loud noises its extremely accurate.
 
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#470
vol4220 said:
Download the Merlin bird app, its amazing. You can use your phone microphone to identify all of the birds around you. It will give you examples of the calls and also replay what it heard to identify it in your yard. As long as there are no chain saws or loud noises its extremely accurate.
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Done, thank you!!
 
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#471
vol4220 said:
Download the Merlin bird app, its amazing. You can use your phone microphone to identify all of the birds around you. It will give you examples of the calls and also replay what it heard to identify it in your yard. As long as there are no chain saws or loud noises its extremely accurate.
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It's an awesome app but be careful with it. Many different species within the same genus have similar songs and Merlin will not tell the difference between a local species and a species in a different area. Black capped chickadee and Carolina chickadee are an example. Northern Mockingbird birds are another. Northern Cardinals have about 30 different songs and some of them will confuse the app.

I use the app daily so I'm not saying it's not a good app, but it does mess up. So learning the songs will always be best. That's the hardest part about birding lol
 
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Rishvol said:
It's an awesome app but be careful with it. Many different species within the same genus have similar songs and Merlin will not tell the difference between a local species and a species in a different area. Black capped chickadee and Carolina chickadee are an example. Northern Mockingbird birds are another. Northern Cardinals have about 30 different songs and some of them will confuse the app.

I use the app daily so I'm not saying it's not a good app, but it does mess up. So learning the songs will always be best. That's the hardest part about birding lol
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Yep, I’ve already seen this with my gardening apps (PictureThis, I’m looking at YOU 👀)

They’re useful up to a point, and then they’re just hilarious.
 
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#475
#475
Saw a pair of crows with their fledglings in a nearby hickory. The youngsters haven’t got their adult voices, yet.
 
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