Tag: Birds

Our annual female turkey sighting. I don’t know where she lives of why she comes by our yard every year, but we see her once in the spring and then never again until next year. 

I had NO idea that we had cedar waxwings in Florida until a pair of them started stripping all of the berries off of the ornamental plants around or pond. This was shot through the bedroom window screen with a 300 just because I was afraid that if I went outside, they would fly off before I could get a photo. 

Whatever was in that water was  surely inviting. All of these and hundreds more robins stopped by one afternoon to have a drink at Squirrel Pub. It was proceeded by a morning of berry eating, so they may have already been a bit on the drunk side!

While he is not really very visible, this little goldfinch stood still long enough for me to take his photo. I don’t recall ever having one in our feeder before, so this was great treat.

There must have been a lot of really great bugs in this poor old oak because this woodpecker and its mate spent almost an entire day putting holes in it. They either got tired of beating on it or they got all of the bugs because eventually, they flew off to better bugs. 

While this does not do these guys justice, it captures their faces. We have a large old, gnarly pine tree in the front yard, and on every limb, there were a couple of these buzzards. I tried to capture the entire tree filled with them, but just couldn’t get them all in one shot. It was going to be our Christmas cards! Anyway, they hung around for awhile scaring the squirrels before taking off for parts unknown. 

I was watering my flowers and heard these tiny voices chattering in the tree beside me. Then they were really still because mom told them to shut up. There are 5 baby wrens piled up here and just as sweet as can be. 

I finished watering the flowers, grabbed the camera and made them all sit as still as stones while I walked around them taking their picture.

I was sitting at my desk working, and all of a sudden, my front yard turned into a circus show with four peacocks and a big white egret strolling through the yard.

Here are three of the peacocks, who were very tame. I went out to take photos and got some video of them. They came closer and closer and closer, apparently looking for food!

​Have not seen them since, but the egret is a regular visitor. 

Since I put in the flat  bird feeder, there have been a wide variety of birds visiting every day. The jays have enjoyed the feeder, but not as much as they enjoy the bird bath. They hop into that water and bathe with enthusiasm! They throw water everywhere!

They eat like that too come to think of it. Along with the jays, we have had ravens, blackbirds, doves, cardinals and woodpeckers enjoying a rather simple seed mix.  None the less, they are fun to watch and keep the feeder and the bath filled for everyone. The squirrel even enjoy the bath and the doves seem to think that they should just sit in the water.                                       

Hopefully, they will stick around the rest of the summer.

This ibis seems to be posing on the top of my Norfolk pine as if he is practicing to be a Christmas angel. He spent quite a bit of time balanced on the top of the tree as it swayed in the light tropical breeze.  

Eventually, he decided that he needed to eat some of the bugs in the yard. He brought along four of his friends, and they spent the afternoon poking their nose into the ground.  

He looks pretty against the blue sky.