Late Evening Birding

Mourning Dove Adult Landing
European Starling Adult Breeding Mimicking
Dark-eyed Junco Adult Female Perched

Common Grackle Adult Male Interior (Bronzed) Foraging

Brown-headed Cowbird Pair Whistling

Brown-headed Cowbird Adult Male Eastern Flying

Mourning Dove Adult Preening

House Sparrow Adult Male Breeding Drinking

House Sparrows Calling

Did you know early morning (6-9) and late evening (6-9) are the best time to go birding? In early morning and late evening I see Mourning Doves, House Sparrows, Song Sparrows, White-throated Sparrows, White-crowned Sparrows, Tufted Titmice, Common Grackles, American Crows, Brown-headed Cowbirds, Laughing Gulls, Ring-billed Gulls, Herring Gulls, American Robins, Northern Cardinals, Blue Jays, Dark-eyed Juncos and Downy Woodpeckers! From 9am to 6pm you would probably only see a few of these. And this is only the list of them I see in my back yard during these periods of the day. If you went anywhere in early morning and late evening you would see a lot more birds than you would in another time of day. Ok, lets move on to dealing with squirrels. If squirrels are a nuisance in your area buy feeders that are easy for squirrels to get to. I know, it may seem crazy but here's why. If you buy what companies call "squirrel proof feeders" it will be a challenge for them to get. But they will get the seed anyway and leave a mess and a broken feeder. If you buy a feeder that is easy for squirrels to get they will get a little seed and leave no mess and no broken bird feeders. That is why "squirrel proof feeders" are almost completely useless. If you have any questions about this please leave them in the comment box or e-mail me by samwpsnook@hotmail.com.

Birdman

Long Birding Day

Dark-eyed Junco Slate-colored Adult Male

American Robin Pale Adult Female
Mourning Dove Adult
House Sparrow Adult Male Breeding


Mourning Dove Adults
House Sparrow Adult Female
Common Gray Squirrel

Common Grackle Adult Male Interior (Bronzed)
Mourning Dove Adults
Mourning Dove Adult

Today after school I went birding in my backyard and stayed for 3 hours straight! Here's how it all started. I had just came home from school and I took my dog for a walk and I heard Blue Jays calling. Then when I came home I left Max inside and went in the backyard. I saw Mourning Doves eating out of the feeder and a Common Grackle singing. Then the Mourning Doves did a courtship display on the fence... and did what mon@rch calls "you know what". Uhhgg! I left that spot immediately so I didn't have to see it. They stopped doing "you know what" and went back to feeding again. Soon House Sparrows came to join the feeding frenzy and they all where having a good time until a squirrel came. As soon as came it did a "begging" stand as if it was a dog. Then it ate some seed and stared a the doves right against the cedar edge. After that a House Sparrow pair came to an abandoned American Robin nest in the open and started building to it. Then about a dozen House Sparrow pairs came and each of them prearranged the twigs there own way. Then the first pair came back and took some twigs from it and so did the other dozen pairs. But I soon turned my attention to the Song Sparrows and Northern Cardinals singing out in the distance. I tried to find them but they were in a dense coniferous tree so I couldn't spot them. Anyway, they were soon mimicked by a European Starling. But with various whistles. Then a American Robin came calling and singing loudly. It stayed on the tree for a while then it left. So all the other birds began feeding again and some juncos came to feed also. It was about 7 o'clock then so I went inside.
Birdman

Busy Birding (pictures)

This Brown-headed Cowbird was very tame and let me take a good picture of it (the one below). It was eating out of my wood hopper feeder, but made a big mess underneath

of seed. As it threw the seed it didn't want on the ground but also knocked some of its preferred seed. It later realised this and ate it.

If you look carefully, you will see that its beak is slightly wavy and crocked. It has that because it is a seed-eater. Also it has black incrediscence body with a dark brown head. Pointy wings, long tail and scaly feet.




Here is two Brown-headed Cowbirds, a House Sparrow and a White-throated Sparrow. They were eating the seed I put out for them.
Jesse my little brother wanted me to take a picture of him on the trampoline and I got a fairly good picture of him jumping on the trampoline.

Here is a Common Grackle looking mysteriously at me. It was just about to eat out of the wood hopper feeder. I wonder why the birds prefer the wood hopper feeder than the plastic one?
Here, also is a Common Grackle but it is bathing in our pond.


I would like to know if this is a House Finch or a Purple Finch. Can mon@rch tell me please?

Pictures

American Robins

Northern Cardinal
Common Grackle
Commn Grackle