1:00 AM – Carolina Chickadees, the cutest little bird around:
Mrs. Cardinal, having a snack and another bath:
Some traffic at the mealworm feeder:
1:00 AM – Carolina Chickadees, the cutest little bird around:
Mrs. Cardinal, having a snack and another bath:
Some traffic at the mealworm feeder:
1:00 AM – A Chickadee and Eastern Phoebe on the mealworm feeder. This is one of the few moments when there is not a Squirrel clamped to the feeder:
Two Doves for the price of one:
Your Daily Squirrel – a trapeze artist:
1:00 AM – The mealworm feeder is full, and the birds rejoice. Here’s Mr. Cardinal tossing 90% of his worms onto the ground.
And Mr. Cardinal again, with a guest appearance by a Chickadee:
Your Daily Squirrel:
1:00 AM – This is cool – Mrs. Cardinal taking a bath while Mr. shares food with her. The way Mrs. has been acting, they must be in the middle of some high powered mating season.
Another one of Mrs. Cardinal bathing.
And now, a non-Cardinal video featuring the ever present Carolina Wren and Carolina Chickadee.
1:00 AM – Chickadees don’t stay at the feeder very long. Here’s a few clips of Chickadees being cute.
Mr. Cardinal, like so many of other birds, really likes mealworms:
Here’s one of the Carolina Wrens that are around the mealworm feeder all day, every day:
1:00 AM – Downy Woodpecker looking for mealworms in the empty feeder. He’s not the only bird to do this. Time to fill it up with worms.
Mockingbird in the days before the feeder was empty.
A Chickadee and Purple Finch get a drink of water. Now that we have no platform feeders up, most of the rail action is in the birdbath. And of course in the Squirrel Buster next to it.
1:00AM – Small thirst Chickadee getting a drink of water:
A Squirrel and a Dove, with the Squirrel hogging the water dish.
Mr. Cardinal and the mealworms. The camera is getting worse, this video is not high quality.
1:00 AM – Here are a variety of birds on the mealworm feeder, a typical assortment:
The Squirrel community continues to absorb the shock of the closing of the food court. Here’s a disturbed Squirrel still searching for peanuts:
As frustration increases, the Squirrels become irritable:
1:00 AM – Blue Jay acrobatics – one hits the rail on both claws and bounces over another. In slow-motion. At the end of the clip, we get a bonus squirrel:
Like the video of Bruno and a Towhee from a few days ago, here’s one of a Towhee and Mazy:
Chickadee on the mealworm feeder:
1:00 AM – It’s not just the Squirrels these days, but also the Raccoons. No one knows why he poked the camera before he laid down:
Usually Chickadees don’t stick around long enough to get good video, but this one is preoccupied with his worm.
It’s not just the Chickadees and the Downy’s that like mealworms. Here’s a big old Red-bellied Woodpecker spearing worms with his big strong beak.