2:56 AM – Bluebirds favor the mealworm feeder over all the others. Here’s a ‘mini-swarm’ of hungry birds.
Archive footage from 11/2016 of a Cardinal and Purple Finch on the empty birdbath.
Tag Archives: Purple Finches
Saturday – 11.18.2017
3:24 AM – Thirsty squirrels, a cat and the very popular raccoon take their turn.
I still have a hard time telling the difference between the varieties of Sparrows. I think these might be Song Sparrows, but those are supposed to have stripes on the chest. They also look like White Throated Sparrows but they don’t really have white throats. Whatever brand of Sparrow these are, there are several of them, which is nice, as they haven’t been around much lately. A femaile Purple Finch is also there, until finally a Cardinal runs the whole lot of them off.
Friday – 11.17.2017
5:51 AM – Here’s an unscheduled ‘Retro’ session. Lately there’s been nothing but the usual characters doing the usual things – not too interesting. Instead, from February, 2017, here’s a flock of Goldfinches on the finch sock.
And from March, a flock of Purple Finches on the platform feeder.
Friday – 11.10.2017
2:36 AM – The Purple Finch versus Cardinal situation on the Squirrel Buster feeder continues. Recently the Cardinal sent the Finch packing. This time it’s different. I guess the Finch is just tired of being pushed around. Or maybe it’s a different Finch and Cardinal.
Brown Thrasher on the platform feeder, just after an all-day rain. We like these birds. In this part of the country (Central Alabama) they are year-round residents.
Tuesday – 11.7.2017
2:55 AM – We spotted a Robin at the birdbath (along with an ever-present Cardinal). We don’t see too many Robin, for most of the year. They should be passing through pretty soon I think. It was such a brief clip, I added a ‘freeze’ to get a better look at the bird.
Here are a Cardinal and Purple Finch sharing the feeder. The finch starts moving around, and the Cardinal pops around the corner like a crank neighbor, telling those kids to get off his lawn. Cardinals are notoriously irritable.
Thursday – 11.2.2017
2:20 AM – Yesterday it was birds on the suet feeder, one after another. Today, a shorter version of birds drinking. We have the Bluebirds, Pine Warbler, Purple Finch and Brown Thrasher, a colorful lot. The quality of the video is really not acceptable, but until we can find a suitable (and better) replacement camera, it will have to do.
High speed Downy Woodpecker. Just some fun with video.
Wednesday – 11/1/2017
3:40 AM – We get more suet feeder traffic in cold weather – it’s in the 50’s, a little chilly for Alabama in October. In order of appearance: Pine Warbler, Purple Finch, Bluebird, White Breasted Nuthatch, Downy Woodpecker, Carolina Wren and Red-bellied Woodpecker. I’m surprised we didn’t see a Cardinal and Chickadee in the lineup.
The other morning, around 4:30 AM, we had a raccoon visit. We were sitting right inside, but didn’t hear anything. If we have to have varmints, I’d rather have the coon than the possum. I prefer the bushy ringed tail to the possum’s naked rat tail.
Friday – 10.27.2017
3:52 AM – They’re not called Purple Finches for nothing. The ‘under-feathers’ on this Finch are really vivid.
Cardinal on the suet feeder. They usually prefer other feeders, but they will really eat at any of them.
Thursday – 10.26.2017
3:49 AM – Bluebird and Finch on the birdbath:
Male and female Downy Woodpeckers on the suet feeder. They love that stuff. It doesn’t taste all that good to me, though.
Wednesday – 10.25.2017
3:17 AM – White Breasted Nuthatch adventures. In the first one he’s avoiding an unpleasant looking Cardinal on the Squirrel Buster. In the second part a Cardinal attacks him on the suet feeder. But the Nuthatch perseveres.
Another video of questionable Cardinal behavior, this time against a Purple Finch.