Bird feeder

[Ed62]

Anyone else feed the birds? We rarely see Rose Breasted Grossbeaks, but we've had a pair hanging around the feeder for the last week or so. Quite a treat to see. We also had an Oriole yesterday. Another rarity for us to see. Here's the Grossbeaks.

Ed

[cabinetman]

We get doves, blackbirds, blue jays, mockingbirds, eagles, buzzards, and a falcon occasionally. This picture of a red headed woodpecker was taken in our backyard under an avocado tree when LOML first got her digital camera.

[John Hunter]

My grandson informed me that a finch has moved into the bird house he built with me a few weeks ago.

[Hellrazor]

I do, I just made 2 wire feeders to hold nuts for the woodpeckers, etc this morning. Otherwise I have 2 finch feeders, 2 suet and 4 feeders.

[thestinker]

I used to....before kids and remodel and everything else I have going on. I plan on putting up a couple of feeders sometime and getting back to feding them. They are great to watch.

[Ed62]

My grandson informed me that a finch has moved into the bird house he built with me a few weeks ago.

Hi John,

Are those the goldfinches? We have them on our feeders, but haven't had any set up home.

Ed

[Ed62]

Does anyone have the pileated woodpecker? We don't have them here, but we lived in central Indiana for 5 years, and had some there. Those things are a real sight, especially when they're drilling into a tree stump. Here's a link to them: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAbou...ecker_dtl.html

Ed

[siliconbauhaus]

We have a pair of cardinals set up low in one of our fir trees. Mrs Cardinal was keeping a beady eye on me as I mowed underneath the nest today. If I can can close enough tomorrow with a camera I'll see what I can get.

Apart from that we have a bush full of catbirds but I cant see the nest.

[Pappy]

The Boss does. We get a lot of Cardinals, an occasional bluejay, and I saw the first Woodpecker a couple of days ago.

She also loves her Hummingbirds.

[jziegler]

I've got a bird feeder in the garden. It really keeps the (indoor) cats entertained. I've been seeing more blackbirds than anything else. I've seen a few cardinals, assorted other birds (I'm not all that good at recognizing the birds).

Jim

[Thom2]

Hummingbirds for us ... we put up a feeder kinda late last year not really expecting much, we were pleasantly surprised with the activity. This year we've had one up for a few weeks and I just saw my first one this weekend, now the wife is looking at doing her hanging baskets with flowers that'll also attract them.

[warrenp]

We have our feeder next to the tv room window. We spend as much time watching the birds as tv sometimes.

And we also saw the grosbeak for the first time this year. They seem to be gone now. We also have been visited by downy woodpeckers. (We actually have a shopmade wood sunflower seed feeder, a suet feeder and a squirrel proof feeder for regular bird seed on the same steel pole.) And the blue jays are the funniest when we put out peanuts on the top feeder. They will fly in about a minute apart, grab a peanut, fly straight to the ground and hide it under a leaf and head back for another. I keep expecting peanut plants to start growing any day.

Anyhow...I am attaching a pic of our visiting grosbeak. Nice thread...thanks.

Warren

[Russianwolf]

Let's see. We have a thistle feeder, a suet feeder and 1,2,3,4,5,6 regular feeders. Oh, and two more out back. LOML also tosses seed in the grass so we literally have birds all over the lawn.

We get cardinals, blue jays, black birds, pigeons, finches, woodpeckers, etc. etc. and the occasional squirrel hanging from a feeder.

We have planted several "butterfly" bushes and honeysuckels so the hummingbirds and hummingbird moths have something to snack on and if we get enough traffic, we have feeders for them too.

LOML also puts out corn and apples for the deer, and lettuce for the rabbits. We have a fox that pays the occasional visit. And she even makes sure that the field mice and chipmonks get something to eat. I'm starting to think that her name is the filipino equivalent of Elly May Clampet.

[Ken Massingale]

Does anyone have the pileated woodpecker? We don't have them here, but we lived in central Indiana for 5 years, and had some there. Those things are a real sight, especially when they're drilling into a tree stump. Here's a link to them: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAbou...ecker_dtl.html

Ed

We do Ed, last year one pair 'nested' in a diseased Sweetgum in the back yard. So far they aren't back. A couple of weeks ago I stepped out of the shop and a movement in the woods out back caught my eye. It was a woody on a dead Pine tree. This was the biggest one I've seen, at least 2 ft. wing span. Around here the ole timers called them Wood Hens, due to the sound they make at times, when alarmed I think.

[dlminehart]

We have a couple bluejays in the back yard that I'll have to dislodge. They raid all the other nests and have decimated the backyard bird population. I'd like to buy a pellet gun . . .