Backyard Bird Watchers

[GoDucks349]

Had a Western Tanager in my backyard pond a few days ago. Beautiful colors

 

[Rishvol]

Had a Western Tanager in my backyard pond a few days ago. Beautiful colors

I'm going to have to take a birding trip out west some time and see those beautiful birds.

 

[GoDucks349]

I'm going to have to take a birding trip out west some time and see those beautiful birds.

I live less than a mile from a wetland area (inside of Eugene) with tons of birds. I'm not much of a birder, but I do recognize quite a few. I had to look up the Western Tanager. We typically have hundreds of Canada Geese in the area, quite a few Kumorats, Mallards, Blue Herons, Sandhill cranes Redtail Hawks and Egrets. Occasional Cooper Hawks and Bald Eagles.

 

[Tin Man]

There are fewer bugs in the yard with these phoebes nesting under the screen porch overhang

 

[Rishvol]

There are fewer bugs in the yard with these phoebes nesting under the screen porch overhang

You'll have many more broods with these cicadas all around hopefully

 

[walkenvol]

Not a bird, but some might be interested in what was walking down my driveway this afternoon

 

[Rishvol]

Not a bird, but some might be interested in what was walking down my driveway this afternoon
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Mighty big black bird

 

[Tin Man]

Ruby throated hummingbird visited my butterfly bush this evening

 

[Go aeiou]

Not a bird, but some might be interested in what was walking down my driveway this afternoon
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Location?
My sister lives near Asheville. They have them pass through their back yard almost daily in the fall. In the neighborhood most days

 

[walkenvol]

Location?
My sister lives near Asheville. They have them pass through their back yard almost daily in the fall. In the neighborhood most days

Between Walland and Townsend TN

 

[DancingOutlaw]

Two sets of house finches have built nests in the ferns hanging on our front porch. The amount of chirping they do during the day is driving me to violence.

 

[Tin Man]

Two sets of house finches have built nests in the ferns hanging on our front porch. The amount of chirping they do during the day is driving me to violence.

Scarlet finches?

 

[DancingOutlaw]

Scarlet finches?

These little chirp factories

 

[Tin Man]

These little chirp factories

Yep. Scarlet finches. AKA common finches in the Southeastern US.

 

[Carl Pickens]

Two sets of house finches have built nests in the ferns hanging on our front porch. The amount of chirping they do during the day is driving me to violence.

I’ve got a set in a fern on my back porch and they start chirping as soon as the sun comes up..... bastards

 

[Megatron88]

I discovered that there is a pair of Downy Woodpeckers nesting in one of the trees in my backyard.

 

[walkenvol]

Why does a red headed woodpecker keep pecking on my gutters in the mornings? No bugs there?

 

[Wireless1]

Why does a red headed woodpecker keep pecking on my gutters in the mornings? No bugs there?

Looking for a morner

 

[walkenvol]

Looking for a morner

?, please expand

 

[Wireless1]

?, please expand

Female woodpeckers are attracted to the biggest, loudest peck from males, so the males find something to enhance their pecks. Your gutters amplify the pecks, and after a good nights sleep the males are ready to go, just be grateful you don’t have a metal chimney cover

 

[Danl]

Female woodpeckers are attracted to the biggest, loudest peck from males, so the males find something to enhance their pecks. Your gutters amplify the pecks, and after a good nights sleep the males are ready to go, just be grateful you don’t have a metal chimney cover

As the co-owner of a metal chimney cover, you got that shite right!!!! I'm a co-owner with a flicker every damn spring. The chimney is directly over my bedroom. Muggerfugger woodpeckers! I bought a Super Soaker and I blast that guy with it whenever I can.

 

[Tin Man]

Woodpeckers, the drummers of the avian world.

 

[Rishvol]

Woodpeckers, the drummers of the avian world.

And they each have their own rhythm

 

[VolNExile]

And they each have their own rhythm

And they love to inflict endless drum solos on us.

 

[Rishvol]

And they love to inflict endless drum solos on us.

While laughing in between each solo