Category Archives: Birds

Backyard Birds At Feeding Time Video

I created a small video collage of some of the backyard birds I have at feeding time.  Feeding time is around 6 p.m., where I fill the bird feeder with Black Oil Sunflower Seed, sprinkle some Nut and Berry Seed, and put out a few mealworms. While I have no idea where some of these…

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Bluebird Babies Make First Visit For Mealworms

I haven’t had any Bluebird nests so far this year, but that hasn’t stopped the parents from visiting on a daily basis for mealworms.  Today I had a little surprise.  The parents led their two babies to my backyard!  Perhaps I will get lucky and the parents will build their second bluebird nest of the…

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Male And Female Baltimore Oriole Feeding In The Morning

Honestly I’m surprised the male and female Baltimore Orioles were still here this morning, but I’m certainly not trying to rush them off.  The male appears much less shy than the female.  I did take a couple of decent pictures in the early morning light, and both birds seemed to enjoy the bird stream for…

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Rare For Me: Male And Female Baltimore Oriole

I saw a pair of Baltimore Orioles today!  The last time I saw a Baltimore Oriole in the backyard was back in September of 2011.  I’ll apologize up front by saying these aren’t the best pictures, especially of the female, but I’m still culling through all of the pictures I took this evening trying to…

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Training Eastern Bluebirds Or How They Train Me

I’ll go ahead and warn you right now. This post is going to have lots of Eastern Bluebird photos, so if you have a slow connection I apologize. I titled this post training Bluebirds, but make no mistake, they really have trained me. However, just for kicks, assume I could actually train Bluebirds. Perhaps I…

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