Recent bird shots….

Recently taking bird shots have been difficult; the primary reason is we’ve hit rainy season so really good - bright eye’d shots have been almost impossible with little or no sun in the sky. Nevertheless I’ll update you on the guys still hanging around.

At the feeders themselves we have the typical Pine siskin’s in vast numbers… Here’s one with a beak full of peanut

oh yeah and…

we have a mother American Robin nesting in our horse barn. I took one shot and then left her alone as I didn’t want to disturb the important task of making little robins. The male sits outside of the horse barn and usually is on top of the electrical line that runs to the horse barn while she warms the eggs. I’m not a big fan of disturbing nesting birds so I also forbade the kiddos from playing in there until the birds have fledged.

The Spotted towhees are now finding more cover in the tall grasses - it seems to me that they are masters at hiding but I hear them everywhere and usually they are flying in between the choke-cherry bushes which must be where they are nesting.

The hummingbirds like the flowers the choke-cherry bushes offer. They also use the branches as a rest stop in between attempting to get juice from the feeders. Here are two resting in our ponderosa pine tree..

I finally got a shot of the Lazuli Bunting in the pine tree he likes the new treats we placed in our copper feeder but is very camera shy.

There seems to be two Brown-headed cowbirds that come to the feeders; a female and male. (This is the male.) Hopefully the numbers stay down. I don’t attempt to scare away any birds, even the cowbirds, I guess as unpopular as they are they need to eat too.

Birds just beyond the feeder are…

A nice suprise and a first, he’s made a home here in the bushes. The Bullock’s Oriole.

The extreamly bright and always beautiful Yellow warbler and…

And another first a Common yellow-throat; this gem was found last week at lake Pierre.

Okay that’s probably good enough. Peace…