Feeder creatures 1

[21limited]

Time for the next instalment of the bird migration. The first wave (grackles and red winged black birds) has largely disappeared.

Female Purple Finch (The purple FInches are still here en-mass,as are the Blue Jays.) Many flocks have moved on heading north.
2025-05-12-FC-Purple Finch F by Norm Head, on Flickr

Male Purple Finch
2025-05-12-FC-Purple FInch M-D-SF by Norm Head, on Flickr

Grackle
2025-05-12-FC-Grackle by Norm Head, on Flickr

One of 3 finch Feeders
2025-05-12-FC-Feeder Action by Norm Head, on Flickr

Mr. and Mrs. Evening Grosbeak- Only two, these must be our keepers for this year.
2025-05-12-FC-Evening Grosbeak by Norm Head, on Flickr

Rose Breasted Grosbeak ( These have nested a short distance from our house for 15 years. Probably not the same ones, but off-spring. Every year we always we see at least one chick, leaving with the parents in the fall. Before they leave they come back to the feeders for a few days in a row to 2025-05-12-FC-Rose Brested Grosbeak by Norm Head, on Flickr[/URL]

Blue Jay STill 16 Jays coming in the morning. By breeding time it will be down to 6.
2025-05-12-FC-Blue Jay by Norm Head, on Flickr

White Crowned Sparrrow - All by itself, don’t know whats going on with this guy.They’ve only nested nearby once in 15 years.
2025-05-12-FC-White Crowned Sparrow by Norm Head, on Flickr

American Goldfinch (M) (Usually 1-3 pairs nest near the house.)
2025-05-12-FC-Goldfinch M by Norm Head, on Flickr

 

[RayboyUSMC]

Beautiful set of shots. I think that is the Hummingbird that left my back yard in Florida for his summer stay in Canada. We had a lot of chipmunks where I grew up in Wisconsin and we have plenty of squirrels here in Florida but I have never seen a chipmunk here.

 

[KJ_North]

Wonderful shot

 

[21limited]

Thanks, I assume you’re talking about the hummer. A hummer update, a second male and female have turned up. The guy above, he sits where he can guard all three feeders, and tries to run off the other hummers. I’m having trouble understand the evolutionary advantage of chasing away the females. Most of our other bird customers that stick around all year pair up at some point. The other hummers still get in every now and then when he’s off somewhere o tnot payig attention, and I’ve read hummers eat insects, even wasps, so maybe the feeders are just desert items. Who knows what secrets lurk in the minds of hummers?

 

[RayboyUSMC]

Thanks, I assume you’re talking about the hummer. A hummer update, a second male and female have turned up. The guy above, he sits where he can guard all three feeders, and tries to run off the other hummers. I’m having trouble understand the evolutionary advantage of chasing away the females. Most of our other bird customers that stick around all year pair up at some point. The other hummers still get in every now and then when he’s off somewhere o tnot payig attention, and I’ve read hummers eat insects, even wasps, so maybe the feeders are just desert items. Who knows what secrets lurk in the minds of hummers?

The males from what I read are very territorial. They are also typical males and unlike some species, they do not mate with just one female. The Alpha gets the girls. They do love insects. I will put a red glass out with some banana in it. As the banana rots, the fruit flies land on it and lay their eggs. I have seen a Hummingbird pick them off and also an Eastern Phoebe.

 

[21limited]

Interesting stuff, I have to try the banana thing. My property is an acre so I have room to put it away from the house.

 

[DanOstergren]

Excellent shots!

I recently attached a feeder to my bedroom window specifically because I love squirrels and jays, so I got feed that attracts them. I love watching them, but they make quite the racket outside my window when it's time to refill the feeder.

 

[21limited]

Ya, the Jays sit on our porch rail and scream, but our feeders are well away from the house. They know where the food comes from. We ended up moving our feeders because of rodent infestations from spilled seed. Once we put them a good 20 meters feet from the house things got better.