Tufted Titmouse
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Nice Sunny. We don't get them very often at our feeder in the spring and summer, but they are gorgeous.
We have them year round. There is a pair that live in the snowball bush in my yard. Very interesting to watch them.
We do get them in pairs in the warmer weather and it is funny to watch the male keep an eye out for his gal while she eats up a storm. The dude gets by on practically nothing!! LOL
another chickadee...I enjoy listening to them...chic-a-dee-dee-dee
two pileated...I spell that right?...woodpeckers. Two woodies...the male has the red behind his beak.
Tufted lesser roadrunner
I saw one of these in the backyard last month. I see the common greater roadrunners often but I'd never seen a lesser roadrunner before, they don't usually come as far north as central Texas. At first I thought it was a roadrunner that had fallen in some mustard lol.
I saw one of these in the backyard last month. I see the common greater roadrunners often but I'd never seen a lesser roadrunner before, they don't usually come as far north as central Texas. At first I thought it was a roadrunner that had fallen in some mustard lol.
There is one that lives around here.....he comes and sits in the hemlock tree, but when I get the camera, he flies away....
two pileated...I spell that right?...woodpeckers. Two woodies...the male has the red behind his beak.
No one believes me when I talk about seeing him....
two pileated...I spell that right?...woodpeckers. Two woodies...the male has the red behind his beak.
I have a pair that lives in my back wooded area. They sure can make a racket, but love the sound. Magnificent birds.
Sand Hill cranes
Spidey, I had never seen these before until my family went to Disney in Orlando. My sister rented us a condo in Kissimmee and our unit had a big back yard that looked out on a little pond. Well, these Cranes came out of nowhere one afternoon and were ready to walk right in the sliding door!! There were about a dozen or so. They were huge!!
Thankfully, my sisters screaming kept them from getting in, but they were great friends to have visit during our stay.
There was this once, out tree-stand hunting, big ole dead white pine nearby, I mean huge...and they like/feed on bugs found in/on dead trees still standing...had a woodpecker like these hanging around, landing nearby, fluttering off. They have that wild call...the one they tried to duplicate in the cartoon. I bring my camera. He/She is nowhere to be found. I've got a blue-jay living in my old dog kennel...I forget he/she...them?...is there and from time to time I need to go in there to fetch a shovel or something...use it mostly for storage now...and the bird escapes through the chain-link. I wonder if they nest in there come spring. Had robins in there one year. Another year, in a maple just outside a window, bluejays built their nest, you could see the eggs...but one day I get home and the nest is on the ground. Dunno if winds (possible) knocked it down...or a neighbor's cat.
Yellow Finch......these and chickadees make nests in my hanging baskets.
They are truly beautiful birds. A gated community behind my woods thought it a good idea to start feeling them. After many screened porches were "broken into" they stopped feeding them. I have a pair that fly over every morning. Their call is mesmerizing. They'll land in my field about once a week.