1:00 PM – It’s cloudy today, so no sprinkler action. However, it was pretty busy. Here are some videos of birdbath traffic:
Here’s a good close-up of Mr. Cardinal eating a sunflower seed. Powerful beak:
This one caught a Bluebird and a Blue-gray Gnat Catcher:
Here’s a robin getting a drink. I’d mistakenly thought robins passed through Alabama on their way to…not sure where. But it turns out that Alabama is one of their destinations, particularly North and Central Alabama. So, presumably, this one is here for the winter.
7:20 AM – There wasn’t much new bird action this week. It was mostly the same backyard residents drinking and bathing etc. The big news is the failure of our new birdbath, the fancy one that’s supposed to let us tip out the water without detaching from the rail. It’s bigger and deeper than the other, but the attachment hardware doesn’t really work. We decided to replace it with a low-tech version. But we’re also adding one of those solar powered sprinklers. Hope it works the way it’s supposed to. If it does, the birds should like it.
The temperature dropped below freezing, so we had ice on the bird baths. Here’s a couple of videos of the birds coping with it. This morning I went out and broke through to the water for them.
A number of videos we took at the beginning of this project will not display due to the uncertainty of the Word Press storage system. We did some research but couldn’t find a solution, so we are reposting them, one and two at a time, starting in November 2017. They will be the bonus ‘Retro’ videos displayed after the current bird and critter activity.