1:00 AM – Blue Jay on the platform feeder. This will be one of the last videos from the platform. We’re taking it down, and moving the camera to another feeder. It was attracting pests to the deck. So, no more platform.
One more from the platform – a couple of Doves.
Here’s a female Purple Finch at the Squirrel Buster, taken by the camera just moved from the deck. It’s a little dark, so we may have to relocate again.
1:00 AM – Purple Finch:
Non-breeding male Goldfinch. The breeding males have the black cap.
1:00 AM – This stray Bluebird is the first we’ve seen in weeks. I think at one time there were two Bluebird families living in the yard, but they’ve moved on. Too bad about the bad camera angle, and poor video quality.
Video of another Squirrel defeated by the ‘Squirrel Buster’.
Here’s a selfish female Purple Finch keeping the feeder for herself.
1:00 AM – The Goldfinches are back. In this video we see what’s probably a non-breeding male – no black cap. Later in the clip a breeding male appears.
Here we have a Purple Finch (I think – it looks purple to me) attacking a Goldfinch. Later on a Carolina Chickadee shows up. Typical day on the feeder.
We end with Mazy’s midnight swim.
1:00 AM – Red-bellied Woodpecker and Chickadee at the worm feeder.
Finch getting a drink. It’s not very exciting, but nothing much is going on around the feeders lately.
And finally, something unexpected:
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 – 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 – 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.