Today is an exciting one for David, our new lawn mower has arrived! Although it's been entertaining watching the cats hopping over the tall bits of weeds and grass...
...it will be good to give it a good trim! For today's post, I'm going to review yesterday's birder shots. David did usual rounds and gathered the following photos, but first he spotted a heron and otter near Bay Creek (they are actually in a water-covered field here!) while he was out later in the day. The water in said field is now gone today.
Eastern Bluebird
Hey, that's not a bird, but is beautiful :)
Turkey Vulture flying overhead
Cowbirds trying to crowd out a male cardinal on the feeder
Blue Jays on feeder with one showing off!
Female cardinal joins the white-throated sparrows for some food
Another view of the blue jays...they sure can swarm the food, seeing only two is surprising!
The female cardinal looks as if she is on alert, show off that crest girl!
A cowbird perches, waiting for the right moment to knock another bird off the feeder no doubt!
Awwww, a female hummingbird getting a sip...
...and one of the males
Our neighborhood killdeer
Ah. Common sight...cowbirds eating us out of house and home! The lighter-colored bird is the female cowbird. We were eating supper out on our front deck the other night, watching them on the feeder (again!) and saw one puff up his chest at one of the other cowbirds, give it one of their unusual "clucks" and chest-butted him off the feeder! For a few seconds anyway.
We love our red-bellied woodpeckers; this is the male, we call him Cyril. His wife is Sylvia (I'm sure you'll be seeing her soon)
White-throated sparrows have the sweetest happy song. If you haven't heard it, go to the Birds tab and click on the link to hear it.
In case you haven't noticed, we love cardinals. The male is chowing down on our deck. Well, not the deck itself, but the food on the deck.
The blue jay is finding this a tough nut to crack!
I guess this is a good place to say "the end" for the day, isn't it? :)
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