Post by Clipper on Apr 27, 2023 19:59:19 GMT -5
I put up Bluebird houses in the back yard, nesting boxes for robins under the carport and under the porch roof over the door to the old store storage building. I checked the bluebird houses this morning and found two mama birds sitting on eggs, one nesting box occupied by a mama robin sitting on eggs, and we have a Cardinal nesting in a Rose of Sharon bush who gets a bit aggressive when you walk too close to the bush. She came out of there and dive-bombed me a couple of times when I went past the bush with the mower yesterday.
We used to feed the birds. We have blue jays, cardinals, wrens, sparrows, mocking birds, mourning doves, and a woodpecker. I took down the feeders a few years ago because we had so many birds that the vehicles and the porch rails we constantly covered with bird crap. We still get all the species but fewer of them. We have a hummingbird feeder but they have not showed up yet this year. I loved feeding the finches when we had a huge fir tree in the yard that started to grow out into the driveway so we had it taken down. The finches loved that tree. At different times we saw gold finches, blue finches, and red finches. I had a feeder filled with niger seed hung near the carport where Kathy could watch them from the kitchen window. I tend to only watch the birds when I am standing by the gate waiting for the dog to do her business. Kathy keeps her binoculars near the window in the kitchen to watch the birds and to watch the squirrels frolicking around. When I go out in the early morning it is not unusual to see 5 or 6 squirrels skittering about and chasing each other.
We used to feed the birds. We have blue jays, cardinals, wrens, sparrows, mocking birds, mourning doves, and a woodpecker. I took down the feeders a few years ago because we had so many birds that the vehicles and the porch rails we constantly covered with bird crap. We still get all the species but fewer of them. We have a hummingbird feeder but they have not showed up yet this year. I loved feeding the finches when we had a huge fir tree in the yard that started to grow out into the driveway so we had it taken down. The finches loved that tree. At different times we saw gold finches, blue finches, and red finches. I had a feeder filled with niger seed hung near the carport where Kathy could watch them from the kitchen window. I tend to only watch the birds when I am standing by the gate waiting for the dog to do her business. Kathy keeps her binoculars near the window in the kitchen to watch the birds and to watch the squirrels frolicking around. When I go out in the early morning it is not unusual to see 5 or 6 squirrels skittering about and chasing each other.
I watched one pair of bluebirds do their "changing of the guard" thing this morning. One was sitting on top of the birdhouse and when the other came out of the house that bird quickly went in.