1:00 AM – Finches on the compressed seed cylinder. Lots of Finches these days. I think they’re Purple Finches, but female or juvenile, so most don’t have the purple coloring.
Monday – 2.26.2018
1:00 AM – Unusual appearance of Bluebird on the cylinder feeder.
Cardinal and Finches on the platform feeder. Mrs. Cardinal is unperturbed by the smaller birds. That’s good, as there are Finches everywhere this time of year.
Sunday – 3.25.2018
1:00 AM – Mrs. Cardinal on the mealworm feeder. At the very end of the clip she’s joined by Mr. Cardinal.
Acrobatic White Breasted Nuthatch on the cylinder feeder.
Saturday – 3.24.2018
1:00 AM – Cardinal on the cylinder feeder.
Pine Warbler on the mealworm feeder.
Male Downy Woodpecker.
Friday – 3.23.2018
4:58 AM – It’s that time of the year again. These Cardinals are sharing food. According to online experts, that’s usually a sign of mating, or having youngsters. It’s been a while since we saw this.
This Blue Jay hung around the platform feeder for a long time for a bird – almost five minutes. This clip starts with a standard view, then accelerates to show several minutes in about 20 seconds. Something different.
Thursday – 3.22.2018
1:00 AM – Bluebirds and mealworms, they go together like peanut butter and jelly.
More from the mealworm feeder, this time a Pine Warbler.
This one may have appeared in a previous post, but here it is again, simply because I like the bright purple patch on this Finch’s back.
Wednesday – 3.21.2018
1:00 AM – More battling Finches, until a Cardinal comes along and disperses them. After a few minutes, they come back, meek and mild, no squabbling.
Busy White Breasted Nuthatch gives the compressed seed a good gouging.
A couple of Blue Jays:
Tuesday – 3.20.2018
1:00 AM – Woodpeckers on the cylinder feeder, a Red-bellied and a Downy.
A Pine Warbler, I think. It’s hard for me to tell the Pine and Yellow Warblers apart. Anyway, this one is a big fan of mealworms.
Finally, a closeup image of a Dove on the platform feeder.
Monday – 3.19.2018
1:00 AM – Lots of action on the cylinder feeder as Finches and Pine Warbler swarm and scuffle with each other.
Cardinal spreading his wings:
A Carolina Wren on the compressed seed cylinder, eventually joined by a Carolina Chickadee.
Sunday – 3.18.2018
1:00 AM – Retro-Sunday, featuring the post from one year ago. This post speculates that the feathers of the Cardinal are changing color, possibly due to the change of season or molting. We didn’t see this again, so it was no doubt a trick of the camera. But the molting season is coming up, and there were plenty of changes then.
Saturday -3.18.2017
4:44 AM – I don’t know if it’s due to the arrival of Spring (and maybe the mating season), but I’m seeing some color change in the Cardinals. Also in a Yellow-rumped Warbler. The first video shows a male Cardinal with a patch of yellow on his breast. This could be emphasized by the direct late-afternoon sun, but you can see it faintly when he’s in shadow (his back turned to the light). In the next video the female Cardinal has a much brighter red area on the wings and crest.
The female Cardinal:
This Yellow-rumped Warbler’s head and shoulders are mottled, not the usual solid yellow (ish) color. He looks like he’s been decorated by an abstract expressionist painter.