1:00 AM – Another emergency Retro Page.

Tuesday – 7.5.2017

3:47 AM – Our wireless router failed, which means no transmissions from the bird-cams. We still have a few ready to go, however.

Blue Jay drinking, and calling.

The squirrel looks like he’s savoring his cylinder seed lunch, munching with his eyes closed. But I’m afraid there’s something wrong with him, since it’s only one eye. We really hate to see these animals get injured, if that’s what this is. Maybe not, though.

Mr. and Mrs. Cardinal, both looking a little scruffy from molting, dining out at the mealworm feeder.

1:00 AM – Emergency Retro webpage, from one year ago today.

Monday – 7.3.2017

1:47 AM – Tufted Titmouse on the mealworm feeder reaches out and pecks the camera, right in the eye. Slow motion instant replay after the action.

This Carolina Wren is repeated taking mealworms away, presumably back to the nest, for mate and young birds. He aways flies slightly to the right of the feeder, toward the corner of the fence. .There’s a lot of dense shrubbery on the other side.

On our last trip to Wild Birds Unlimited they were out of the pepper impregnated version of these bird seed cylinders, so we got the regular kind. The birds like them, but also, of course, the squirrels. We moved the cylinder cage to in front of the camera yesterday, and caught these images (among many others) of a squirrel going to town on the compressed bird food. He might as well enjoy himself now – we’re making a run back to Birds Unlimited in a few days, and we expect they’ll have the good, squirrel-proof stuff in stock.

1:00 AM – Retro Sunday!!

Saturday – 7.1.2017

2:59 AM – We put the birdbath (and camera) back up on the deck railing – the only bird hardware we’ll install until the deck is sealed. We taped an immature House Finch, and a squirrel who was curious about the camera.

Is this an immature cardinal? Or an adult female? If it’s the adult female, it’s the first time one has been on the mealworm feeder – so far it’s only been the males that use that feeder, for some reason.

Another video of the new Gen-2 bluebirds. They’re at the feeder almost constantly.