1:00 AM – Cardinal on the meal worm feeder, vivid red in the bright sun.
This Wren is trying to bath without actually getting into the water. He circles and dips a wing or tail feather in the water. At one point he hops off the bird bath and sits on the rail, preening. This performance went on for quite a while.
Raccoon makes unsuccessful midnight visit to the feeders.
1:00 AM – Determined Indigo Bunting eating in the rain.
The squirrel in this video looks young, and unsure of himself. Something startles him, and…
Blue Jay, drinking. At the end when he jumps off the rail, he looks like a paratrooper going out the airplane door.
1:00 AM – Typical Indigo Bunting hopping around the feeder.
Something new. Not just one raccoon, but two. At the end of the clip Raccoon One jumps down, revealing Raccoon Two behind him on the rail. The video is slowed down to give Raccoon Two more time on camera, for his/her video debut.
Here are the two raccoons from another angle, with Raccoon Two in the foreground. If you’ve never heard a raccoon drinking, this is your chance.
1:00 AM – The rambunctious Indigo Buntings are quarreling with the Finches again. They’re outnumbered, but that doesn’t stop them from swaggering around like a pack of juvenile Bluebirds. (Juvenile Bluebirds can be very obnoxious and aggressive.)
A nice shot of an Indigo Bunting on the Squirrel Buster:
Just for a change, here’s a raccoon trying to get into the Squirrel Buster feeder. The Squirrel Busters really work, and the raccoon gets nothing there. But he does clean out the platform feeder. Oh well.
1:00 AM – Indigo Bunting and a Finch on the Squirrel Buster feeder. The Bunting keeps trying to run off the Finch, but the Finch keeps coming back. It turns into a game of bird hide and seek.
Here’s a close up of a Mockingbird on the mealworm feeder:
In this one we have the Bunting and a pair of Cardinals at the same time, in different feeders.
1:00 AM – The Indigo Buntings are beautiful little birds, but they’re not sissies. Here’s one attacking a Purple Finch and his date.
More Bunting Finch conflict. In this one the birds go back and forth, harassing each other. Watch for the Indigo surprise attack on the Finch near the end of the video.
And, for a change from Indigo Buntings, here are a couple of non-Buntings on the platform feeder – a Red-bellied Woodpecker and a Brown Thrasher, one of our favorites.
1:00 AM – We haven’t seen one of these male House Finches for a while. This one has nice bright red feathers.
More Indigo Buntings, in this case a non-breeding male, then a fully bright blue breeding male, and last probably another breeder.
Finally, a Cardinal couple having dinner, then at the end, sharing.
1:00 AM – More video of Indigo Buntings. This one is sharing the platform with Finches for a while, before taking off. Then it’s a small Finch mob.
For a little variety, here’s that wet Cardinal from yesterdays post. At the end of the clip he’s joined by a Bunting.
This blotchy looking Bunting is a non-breeding male Indigo. The breeding version are the bright blue ones.
1:00 AM – The Indigo Buntings are still around. We’ve got plenty of video which we’ll post over the next few days. We’ll start with this Bunting and a wet Cardinal. (They’re on a hanging feeder filled with a broken up compressed seed cylinder. It’s very popular with birds and squirrels).
A Cardinal at the cylinder feeder:
In case you wondered what’s up with the raccoon, we can say that they’re still around, but for some reason haven’t tried to get into the feeders lately.
1:00 AM – Follow up to yesterday’s Crows eating peanuts – this one isn’t wasting any time clearing the rail. Once the nuts were gone, so were the Crows.
I think this is more what we had in mind: A wholesome Blue Jay having a snack.
Finches on the birdbath. In their striped suits they look like little Shakespearean court jesters.