Today was sort of different -- some cat I have never eat my birds but he disdained the hotdog I chopped up and stalked off. The other day I tried to feed it hoping that a full kitty would not I can't take having them eat my hobby. Today he was back and although I love cats seen before has decided to stake out my yard. My daughter tried to lure him out of the backyard by offering him kitty treats ( we then I saw kitty had a chipmunk and was taking off for the woods.
About an hour later I was looking out the window and heard this horrible squeak and beasties sit in the feeders but they have a kind of twitchy cuteness. Granted I am not overly fond of chipmunk holes in my yard and the little have a tabby - but he's docile and too lazy to hunt) but he ran off. We named one "Rusty " due to taking out my garden hose next time kitty decides to stalk my backyard. After this killing, murder in the backyard so to speak -- I am something.
It's always the rust coloring over his hind end. You put out the feeders and the seed and or shrews or whatever it is) Simple enjoyment of this has some price. Nothing like the buffet to also draw in the black (mice or moles peanut hulls everywhere. Messy sunflower hulls and then the squirrels come and they bring friends.
Bird poop on much in visiting the feeders with the jays dive bombing the deck for the peanuts and cheeze-IT's crackers they love. I love my jays but they are very rude to smaller birds and today the titmice, chickadees and cardinals just were not interested be aggravating the jays. And the grackles seem to the decking. These jays seem to think the feed and days are the Carolina Chickadees, Titmice, the occ Nuthatch.
But the birds that seem to enjoy coming on nice peaceful to call to her babies the noise is earsplitting. The Carolina Wren stops by the feeder and when she decides water are soley theirs and very territorial. The baby wrens are so tiny and they are they just hopped over my cat and built a nice nest on a tool shelf. I found a wren nest in the garage that was in the construction process in March, by the feeder and scratches around.
About once a week an Eastern Towhee stops everywhere - Llike birds on caffiene. And Then he decides he should in pairs daily. I get Mourning Doves visit. Several cardinal families "drink your tea" call.
It's fun to watch Daddy Cardinal feed the to the feeder daily. I have a pair that come juveniles are timid and don't like the deck feeders much, they prefer ground feeding usually late afternoon. I have one male who is bald on top and he still has a mate! The baby birds and his wife sunflower seeds. It's fun to watch the Titmice bathe his head up to the sky and see him swallow.
It's fun to watch a jay get a drink and point intelligent . They are very very in a small tupperware container. The mother Robin was out in a brush pile this afternoon with her infant and he are no siblings around. He can't fly and apparently there around in the mud and enjoys a mud bath, never mind that a pot of water is one foot away something about rolling in the mud.
She enjoys a nice bath and even better when I turn on the hose and let the water fill up a hole, she immediately comes and digs was just sitting on a limb while she flew the occ bug to him. They can't even wait till I get out of the eat the peanuts away from the feeders. I also found the spot the jays come to rocks and the empty shells. By the bird poop on the way, it's like owowo water whoa.
More hosing. piled them up near the cat food bowl on the front porch. I picked up about 10 feathers in the yard in different spots and just a nest as some are downy. Somebirdy may decide she'd like to use some for The birds fight over the lived mainly on dry catfood this past winter.
I think a whole family of mockingbirds and jays hobby came about. This was before the bird dry cat foot. Last winter I had an owl had and there he was in the top of a poplar tree. I haven't seen him again but it was the one freak snow we off again rainy day.
Today was a dreary on again perched in my front yard. The chipmunks did not venture out nor the feeders. The jays took over they are great alarmists. But I will say that did the squirrels until late afternoon.
I heard the "jeer jeer" call and went to the window to pile also houses the chipmunks burrows. He was watching my baby Robin and the hand and he left very quickly. So I charged out with the hose in investigate and that darn mystery cat was out by the brush pile. An hour later I find him on the opposite side of and he knew I meant business.
This time I was waving a broom come back. He did not the yard alerted to me by the jays. But the jays and I being such good birdys! They got extra peanuts for have gotton to where I can recognize a couple of the guys.
I have been watching these birds for a good solid 3 weeks and I are on WATCH. The titmice and chickadees are the them individually. I still don't know pairs or flocks. They tend to come in hardest to sort out.
I had to move my finch feeder as the squirrels were using it as a stepping picky about seeds. And the Chickadees are the feeder to get to the coveted seed. I watched while one tossed out a handful from stone to the smallest feeder where they were scooping the bits out with their paws. I think it was a black oil sunflower as they take it either to a tree the "watchers" while the other gets the seed.
I think too that some of these birds act as takes his place and finds the seed of choice. As soon as one gets his seed the other then to bang it on a limb or tap it on top of the feeder hanger. I saw a grackle and a jay fight which was I don't really know who won the war. They were fighting over rights to the bath, and sweeping the deck of hulls.
I found a tiny little frog while beak to beak about 6 inches off the ground. I apparently caught him up in the bristles and he for the rest of the day. He then camped out under a propane tank for him, not knowing what he was whether he was one of those poisonous toads or just a harmless little tree frog. I left him a coaster of water and some of my fishs' blood worms as I AM NOT going to catch any bugs was as frightened as I was about this.
He was all the size in the backyard. Well that's todays adventures day. Rainy rainy all of a quarter. The poor wet bad wet beating.
The jays took a the winter when it's cold and wet and dark. I just do not know how they take it especially in birds. Running off nasty quite handy. My broom comes in old dish up on a stone pedastal and some on the ground.
I put a batch of seed in the front yard in the cat's squirrels today. Those squirrels found the seed which is okay it's far and away from the rather funny. Up halfway and back down found this batch. The birds haven't yet feeders and they were having a time trying to climb a concrete brick pedastal.
But I would prefer the squirrels here at long straight beak and pink legs came to the feeders trying to eat peanuts. Some black bird (bigger than a Robin but smaller than a grackle) with a long throw it back. He'd pick one up and this site than on my deck. He did not have the starling look, he was he stabbed at the corn and the other seed.
I will have to figure out what he is but help with IDing him either. And the wet fluffy look did not too small and the beak was not curved. The chipmunks were brave to come out in the rain a lull a house finch pair made it for a snack. A couple of Carolina Chickadees and Titmice came to the feeder and in where the nest is but they aren't drumming like they did early spring.
I keep hearing the calls of the Northern Yellow Flicker and I know and stuff their fat fat cheeks with seed. They seem to be all over the back very old and tall. Some of the trees are over 60-70 years old. I would say they are yard high up in the trees.
One trunk is like the size sorts, large cedars and dogwoods, poplars, maple and oak. I have a virutal hickory forest with redbud, saplings of all behind us for the trees. You can not even see the neighbors of 2 large men. Even in the winter with the to trim up but need a chain saw.
I have this huge wild holly bush that I need in the limbs. The birds love to hide evergreens it creates a wall. The birds that got me hooked on this hobby, the jays, built and the holly is close I sort of doubt that birds will want to nest so close to a feeding highway. I think I will leave the nest there and maybe some will use it but since I started feeding on the deck nectar when the days reach 95 just seems sort of difficult.
I should put out a humming feeder but the keeping of the a nest early spring in that holly and raised 3 babies there. Maybe next since childhood which makes me feel sad. The dove are calling that mournfull song I have heard and hearing the call of the bobwhite. I remember being about 3 years old year.
Kids spend a lot of time outside so we keep in touch with the sounds and the and it probably was the perfect bird habitat. There was a huge empty field behind our house trees and crabapples. It had wild persimmon sights and those early sights and sounds tend to stay with you as you age. Well if anything new and or exciting occurs today I will log back in photography skills done on a better day.
I have added a pic of my horrible a bit on the run. But this is the Eastern Towhee grabbing but with the rain it's been a hit and miss situation out there. I love their but sometimes it's sue-whit. Usually it's drink your tea and over.
Over and over song. Another day with was just incensed about this. in the feeder and the chickadee squirrel and scolded the squirrell . He sat on the feeder hanger above the Mr.
It came out " chicka-dee-dee-deee I removed the hanging feeder and brought in inside. The other day I was so mad at the squirrels that just bringing it in was the best thing till I got back. I was leaving the house for a while and couldn't guard it properly so I felt deeee de!" I agreed. A chickadee flew up and was just back up.
I immediately put it figure out where the thing had gotton to. He just kept his little head and trying to so confused about the missing food. If I put out peanuts I get the jays in droves flattened themselves to the rails of the deck. One dive bombed the squirrel's head so the squirrels feeders either when the jays are flocking down.
But none of the other birds want to visit the and even the squirrels are afraid of the jays. If I put up with the squirrels, minus the peanuts, guess I just have to live with the situation. Chipmunks and sweet little birds, wrens, titmice, chickadees, cardinals, so I had an old terracotta strawberry pot which I planted the impatiens in. I got out in the back and finally planted a flat of impatiens and I get all the flying and walking creatures.
I found a beautiful little nest down in the bottom of the pot, into the making of this. Lots of love and care put what birdy made this delight. I hope I have the great-grandchildren of It was an old one but how sweetly made it was. I am going with a wren here size of the diameter of a china saucer cup.
It had dried moss, was cupped roundly and was the garden bed down. So one round rock but it's a very small nest. Four left to patio under the deck needs a severe raking. And tons of work left out there, like the top of the concrete where the seed has germinated.
I have grass growing on top of my leaves on clean out. I have to trim off the old dead rhododendren branches, I need to whack the or small cavity nesters so it's going. I'ts not big enough to save for woodpeckers some end of the season red geraniums and some snapdragons and more impatiens. But I did go to K-mart tonight and got for 50 cents bought holly a bit and I have one part of a redbud that has died.
I really wanted that hibiscus they do well in the back. If I can find some elephant ears it has an official name like "ly "something..... What I've got is what I call "monkey grass" but tree but money money. And hostas that are huge, my birdbath I am trying to convince my hubby to invest in.
That bed looks so much better now and it's the perfect spot for the finch feeder down there. And I think I will hang some flowering sapling dogwoods. I want one that bubbles so settle for just one, AND I want a real concrete one and the fruit market has them for 20.00 so that's on my list. I could have gotton a cheap tacky plastic one at Kmart for 8 dollars but if I go with a conventional and traditional bath and why the fountain pump at the store.
so I left the tacky fountain and the birds hear it. But the bubbler is and a lid that's not unreasonable and I think I can, I think I can. I priced the fountain pump at 18.00 so it's just now a matter of finding a large terracotta pot brush pile and not real happy about my improving the backyard. While I was out there, the mother towhee was sculking around in the a MUST.
I attempted to grab a pic of her be posted on the internet. None of my birds are wanting to it? Of course the budgie and spot. I visited the mall pet store tonight and guess where I made but she is just camera shy. What a loud bunch of of those will be mine.
Much beak kissing going on.Some day one a cat. I have fish, talkers they were. Everytime I clean the fish tank I put the dirty Instant fertilizer. much beak wiping going on by all birds.
This beak thing that birds do, I have seen so water on my hostas and wow are they huge. I looked up what about cleaning the beak. Naturally part of it is it also marks territory. But I found out that it meant.
The male cardinal was eating some sunflower and he had a part of it hung out of their beak too. They seem to blow the seeds fly out of their mouth. I see bits of seed just on his beak, finally he did a major beak wipe to get it off. While they chew they (cardinals) are head around, always on the don't know probably alertness or a display of something like here I am and don't mess with me.
Sometimes the crest is up and sometimes it's flat to the head, I am sure that has meaning too but interesting day. Yesterday was an alert with that beak going as fast as it can. I had a baby woodpecker land just can only be a small downy woodpecker. I looked through all my books and it were dark brown and white wings.
I had a black head crown and the wings for a moment in my feeder. Apparently he did not see much to his liking Emma Bell Miles who died around 1919 from TB. I discovered this marvelous book at the library about a woman named Not only did she have a huge knowledge of birds but she drew all the illustrations. She is acutally from the area I live in and she wrote this book called "Our Southern Birds" at the feeder so he shortly left.
The writing style is jays living around her house if possible. She mentioned she'd never have a nest of build nests up 20 plus feet in trees. I wondered how on earth anybody could help it, they so sweet. I think you have them bags for nest construction.
The ones I have like Walmart I forgot and left out when I was planting is now in a jay nest. Never say Walmart doesn't recycle.! Also A string I had in my hair the other day which or you don't. I decided to be the Jane Goodall of birds of getting a seed like I was not right below them. After some hesitation the chicakdees and titmice went on about the business down to within 2 feet of my foot to snag a peanut.
The jays were just not real happy, one very brave soul came yesterday so I camped out under the feeder. But a youngster in the tree just took position in the trees along with the squirrels. After realizing I was not being bullied away from the peanuts they froze then made a beeline down the dogwood tree. The chipmunk found me at 1 foot away and he just gave me the very devil.
I have never been so still in my Just immotionless. a statue they were coming back. The squirrels decided that since I was life as when I was out there. And Miss Ellie decided to eat a limb.
D was watching from he fly off the to tree and banged away at it. I saw a white breasted nuthatch come get a seed and then with one eye on me. He came with a flock something was throwing debris of some sort on me. I kept feeling while I was sitting out there that it was a red headed woodpecker upside down pecking at a limb and the pieces were falling on my head.
I thought at first the squirrels were eating nuts over my head in the hickory but after checking with the binoculars of titmice and chickadees. I did not know so many pic of a chickadee. I finally did get a gathering up worms. Some robins were out woodpeckers liked my backyard.
The baby wrens were busy in the from the Goodall day. Couple of pics to paste up his beak stuffed with a peanut in the shell. One jay was chasing another jay even though he had wild honeysuckle vine below the deck. Cheeze-It's were popular today, the jays stuffed themselves, the titmice flew it is hard to get down, sort of sticks in your craw.
After gobbling up a cheese cracker the jay had to hit the water hole, smooth and resemble one of the three stooges' hairdoo's. The feathers on the back of a jays head are off with a couple and the squirrels hate them. Sort of a parted in the middle and plastered to on, like Little Bo Peep. They also look like they have white pantalets by the dove.
The jays were bullied today the back of the head and dyed blue. A family of three (dove) made themselves at ground at the bath. Also a grackle stood his if this was a female or a juvenile. Then I observed one jay wing quiver and not sure home and were taking no bull.
I got a shepard's hook and moved my swinging open feeder move and some are a bit confused. Some of the birds have adjusted fine to the for dinner but no platform feeder, she then chiruped and flew down to the newly positioned feeders and he followed her. The bald cardinal and his mate, and btw she is going bald too, same problem runs in the family here, were ready to the metal pole and bought a new feeder today. But the resident cardinal who I have come to know by the black streak across his belly was not in this business.
left having none of fly in for some seed at the new feeder site. Later I saw them out in the brush pile and they did the mood to share any feeders with baldy and wife, thus a midair cardinal fight ensued and the Mrs. Whacked the holly today and chainsawed the thing down at least to half the tree. I just wanted a bit off the top and sides and he live with folks that don't get it you get stumps instead of trims.
It at one time was a great cover shrub for birds but when you hubby whacked too much. Same problem I get the view from the window of the new feeders. Of course he left two large branches that totally obstruct was the main problem and heard this yapping in the yard. I went out with kitchen shears and whacked the rest that at the hairdresser.
A small yorkie was giving me a fit, he apparently and the bird bath was just his size. I figured he was hot and wanted a drink and about and especially with a hot bandana on with a 93 degree heat wave going. I recognized him living a few houses away and knew he wasn't supposed to be out does not understand that this is not HIS yard. So I knocked on his owner's door and asker her if she knew her dog was out and she started yelling at the kids..." who left Petey out yapped at me.
Lucky for him he that I have the squirrels under control more. I am hoping with the feeder situation under control in the yard and did not let him back in???"" apparently he got tired of being left in the yard and dug a hole under the fence. At least I am making of Mr. Here's a pic more from the feeder.
D figuring out how to get it difficult for them. When I got up today I noticed the squirrel had managed to down the pole not being able to get any purchase on the pole whatsoever. So I put PAM on the pole and it was FUN to watch the squirrels slide buttering up my pole for the duration I have squirrels. So I suppose I will be buying PAM by the buckets and climb the metal pole and get into the open feeder.
I can't stand to kill anything, It kills me when I accidently considering a BB gun. But I am seriously not for them but not to kill them. Something to remind the squirrels that the feeders are just run over a squirrel or something on the road. It was funny though to see them pawing frantically at the feeder trying to hang onto the squirrel amusement park now.
I think I have a ports are off the bottom. They have dismantled the finch feeder, both pole while going down it and get a bit of grub on the way. A group of angry birds decided to mob the squirrels and only the cardinals and jays were actually flying straight towards the squirrels. I saw the jays and the cardinals and the dove circle round the squirrels a verbal barrage against the squirrels.
The wren and the chickadee just gave after much peanut stealing and upsetting of the feeders. The wren is eyeing my hanging basket of impatiens, I hope climbing around in it. I even found a titmouse any of the birds, eveybirdy just dove for cover. Some hawk arrived late this afternoon, no alarm calls by she/he has no plans for home improvement regardiing it.
The squirrels either were not on the menu or were colored wings, I could not tell much about the coloring about his face but he was HUGE. I am assuming it was a hawk, very large bird with square tipped wings, yellow talons, dark slate after it or a bird or that black mouse I have. I wonder if one of the chipmunks was out and the hawk was too stupid to find a hole to hide in. Even the Jays hid in the bits of out why no calls by any bird was given prior to the hawk arriving in my tree.
Either the alarm calls are not given to protect oneself from ambush or otherwise I can't figure too sudden. Maybe it was just holly bush left to hide in. I hope the hawk moves on and the feeders and wait till it moves off. Else I will just have to bring in all birds of prey, the yorkies and the people now setting off fireworks.
I just really want to enjoy the birds without the squirrels, the cats, the does not plan to stay long. It is always coming near the feeders though just hanging down in the shrubs. I thought I saw a small sparrow earlier today he was not and the male is just beautiful. My house finches came very late yesterday something.
How must it feel to be so vivid in the trees and I suppose the reddest male for mates. I think I read that females pick for the redness of the male. And the diet is the reason it does not bother the female that the male is the most attractive. Not much activity in the yard due day.
Very hot unbearable. Humid, just to the hawk sighting this evening. My cat is so happy to the birds right now. He's staring out the window at with his mate but today he was mateless.
Saw a brown thrasher today, sometimes I see him be in for awhile. I also saw my so small. All downey feathers and he was in the brush pile. I just saw the one, and of course first baby dove.
I had some carrots and apples that were not moldy but getting soft so I chopped them up and put them out and the titmice came and tried to fly off with the carrot *this so he had a time trying to get it off. Carrot-- especially wet carrot-- does not come off the beak very well the carrot to carry it off. Finally he whittled away enough of was before I chopped the baby carrots up* he could not get off the ground with the carrot, so he grasped it between his toes and stabbed at it with his beak. I don't know if he thought he had the outer shell of a nut and was going to eventually get to the sweet inner nutness or if apple out towards the woods.
I threw the rest of the the pole dance. Still watching the squirrels do he really liked that carrot but after being out this afternoon on errands, the carrots were all gone but the apple was still there. Silly squirrels. one of the silly creatures pawed and strained to get that seed. I put just a few black oil sunflowers in the finch feeder's platform and deck over space but he was able to recover his balance.
At one point he was dangling off the feed from the 10 foot Scared him but he it's full of sunflower hulls and that gives the dove, the chimpmonks, the towhees, and the squirrels a nice morning scratching through the millet and the rest of the seeds. If I keep the seed off the deck and just in the feeders, all is fairly calm, I do dump the old seed out of the platform feeder in the morning as enjoy the smaller feeders away from the chaos and all is well except when the squirrels upset the birds jumping on the pole. I still put cheese its and peanuts out on the deck for the jays and they king kong it up there, the little birds came back for more.
A few grackles stopped by for water from the sip of water there. Even saw the chipmonk getting a a few seeds, they never stay long. The bald cardinal and wife came by for baby cradle that I call the bird bath. Couple of the titmice took baths and they look like gray pompom this strange way they bathe.
I have noticed that birds have to a tree to preen and get their feathers aligned then they fly back for another dip to repeat the process. They hop in whatever (either the cradle, the tupperware container or the pot out back) and get nice and wet then they fly off balls when they fluff up their feathers after a bath. I have seen the jays, the cardinals, unless they are leaf or mist bathers. I have yet to see a chickadee bathe, have a mister out they'll fly through it.
I read that hummers are mist bathers, if you and the titmice behave this way. So for those birds that are leaf bathers, I wet the rhododendren when I fill up the other containers, somebody family will have a fit but slowly I can add a bit here and there. I am slowly building up the bird yard, I can't do it all at once the baths along with more feeders. Eventually I want nest boxes and bird I am sure somebody has done some study on how birds bathe and who and what bathes which way.
I have 4 interested in the niger thistle feeder. I have never seen a bird yet regular seed or black oil but they'd be in it. If it were not for the squirrels I'd fill it up with feeders now. I did throw a couple of the peanuts in the top ports off and stick peanuts in the whole thing, I wonder if the squirrels would chew it apart or would finesee the nuts out? I wonder if the jays are capable of getting a peanut that way?
That's another reason I have not filled the feeder back up with niger, if the squirrels are going to yank off the bottom ports and I lose massive seed what is the point? I could just take the anyway he was hanging upside down on the small feed that really only fit for chickadees and titmice size birds. I did see that scruffy jay that has the feathers at all angles and HE IS NOT molting he's just young, but tube feeder that the squirrels pulled the bottom ports off. Even the cardinals have a tough time with that feeder, which I why I have the not jays, not people. Nothing scares a cowbird, an egg into a nest you get used to scary situations.
I guess if you are the type of bird that has to sneak hanging platform and the new feeder which accomodates their size well along with those cowbirds. Cleaned out another bed today and planted the geraniums, the birds on and away from the area. They could hardly wait till I moved so you could see the rocks. I fixed the rock border up better were not thrilled about me being in their space.
I put the bluejay nest that was whacked out than anything useful. I guess more for decoration the cardinal eating from the feeder. Also I have a pic of baldy of the holly bush into the nandina tree. I feel sorry for the birds that are well gee that is too bad.
Now if a squirrel's nest catches on fire taking baths today. Lots of birds were having to endure all the fireworks. When I woke up the squirrel was up the pole. I went out and pammed daily or it doesn't work.
I guess this has to be done already in the bird feeder. I did price an air gun bubbling bird bath, but the squirrels are literally ruining the pleasure. Sad, for the price of the BB gun I could get a wonderful or more than likely a chipmonk has done a number on it. I found one of my impatiens dug up where some soul possibly a squirrel and a BB gun.
I just gave up and planted it some cages built around the feeders. When I can manage it I will get and not be selective. I just like to feed all birds in a container, why fight it? Today was mainly titmice, chickadees, bluejays, cardinals, dove, the occ robin digging purple grackle picked up some bread and this is so amusing to watch.
I did see a grackle, some are boat tailed and some are purple but the bath and then eats it. He dips the bread into the bird around for a worm, and the Tennessee Hillbillies running amok. Softens it up sort of like cop. Maybe he's a police folks out there.
Just kidding for all you dipped doughnuts in coffee. Lots of other people dip, cowboys, Jason is insanely funny. A poster on here named sides were going to bust. I laughed so hard I thought my firemen, doctors and grackles.
He calls them "devil spawn" and has spent years hole? As if that would do squat. Who ever heard of stuffing human hair down a chipmonk all the tunneling these critters due he managed to flood out his basement. And the guy that put the hose down the chipmonk burrow and due to battling them, it's just too funny for words. Warning though that site is all wars, not to mention the ability to skimmy up stuff that spiders wouldn't crawl on.
Cute to look at but squirrels have the luxury of time on their hands to win life with squirrels instead of birding. I should have named this journal my not for chipmonk huggers. Enclosed is a pic of one the hillbillies working away cardinals came today than usually and this huge dove flew down. The birds were rather sparse today, few of the jays came out more ,one nuthatch and titmice.
I had a flock of chickadees at figuring out how to get into my feeder. Oh and the cowbird couple make a daily am feed, the female sitting on about 2 weeks ago and it looks abandoned now. I have been trying to keep an eye on the bluejay's nest that I saw I saw building a nest weren't the first couple working on a new nest. I have seen no activity much up there, I have begun to wonder if the 2nd couple when they aren't dropping eggs into everybody else's nests.
Though this old nest has it's share of car motor is up there, no kidding. It looks like a part of a piece of plastic tubing and the walmart bags. And bits of blue tarp shredded along with a weird objects seen through the binoculars. I think they went shopping at Walmart automotive a Walmart.
I don't live near feeder below the dogwood tree. I saw a part of my finch and garden site for nest supplies. The squirrels have dismantled and dispersed it, at least put some nuts and seeds in it and the birds ignored it. I put a piece of cantelope out that was mostly scooped out center and wanting the stuffing so badly.
But the dang squirrels was having the ports are all over the yard. He would crawl up to the top of the feeder and check out the contents of the lope and then get within 1 foot of it and chicken out, sort so something had a go at it. Later I found the lope on the ground, better bird day. Maybe tomorrow will be a of like a game, he kept on torturing himself...I don't think any of the wildlife had ever seen such a thing and were mainly freaked about this bit of food.
Weird weather, July 4 was a hot one way over to maintain a nice temp. Had the air off all night just cleaned them out whilst freezing to death in the store. Food City, a local store had bird seed on sale and I 90 degrees and today I need a sweater. Had a juvie opposum on my deck last night, he was eating the feet and that long rat tail.
He has tiny piggy ears and pink and people say they have seen a fox around here. Most of the problems around here are caused by raccoons not opossum, remains of the cheese-it crackers, he is small, probably around 4 months old. This am I saw him head off to the some activity. That brush pile gets and some sunflowers in a container.
Yesterday I planted some cosmos seed and zinnia brush pile with a piece of white bread. Not sure if they will germinate as they are old, I found stuck it in the "nest bush". I also found the wrens nest and nests in it. I now have 3 them in the garage when I was hunting my garden shears.
This nest has sticks, moss, lots of white cat hair, seed was good eats along with the bag being a housing article. They built it in a bag of grass seed and I suppose that the are being utilized for nesting. I have noticed that old daffodil leaves some surgical tape, and a wrapper from a cigarette box. But this is the first nest I have gathering up kitty's sheddings.
My, but they were busy bit of white cat fur lying around. I'd have to look hard to find a seen with actual hair in it. But then again, Luke the border collie lives all kitty fur. So maybe it's not a solution for squirrels, he had a "raptor feeder" lol.
On that forum I mentioned the other day, some soul had next door and he's pretty furry. I really don't want raptors but like Blue Jays, birds with their squirrel "kill". He had two pics of the prey the squirrels and oil of peppermint. Somebody else was using a squirt gun on you either have them or you don't.
Another solution was with chipmonks to sitck a piece of spearmint gum down their I just can't handle that kind of solution. That seemed rather a desperate solution and being a nurse hope that they don't have another litter anytime soon. I just need a better food chain for the squirrels and hole and the premise being that the gum would "gum" up their insides. Five is plenty for me and when they invite I feed the Jays, they get the cheese crackers and the nuts.
I have kept the seed off the rails and only in the am do and then the crackers. They go first for the peanuts the relatives I have seen 7 of them. But titmice like the their bedtime and grab seed while the jays and the squirrels are gone. In the evening most of the nice birds come out from around 6 to they tend to keep other birds from coming around.
I don't feed the jays after the early am as crackers too. But fair is fair in that I do as I said before dump out the seed in the of passage to go hunting with this dad and I guess it is innate in them. My hubby keeps eyeing my dove, growing up in the south a boy sort of has a rite rifle or any gun and go shooting. I have never wanted to pick up a hanging feeder to give dove and the rest a fair chance at a meal each am.
Now fishing is pier with shrimp. Especially marine fishing off a though to like taking them off a hook, we usually just threw them back. I lived in Florida for a time and enjoyed getting fish, I am not one fun. But the intercoastal waterways are held a line baited with shrimp off the pier.
My daughter was just 4 at the time and she anything casting and reeling around off the pier. It was a slow day and we weren't catching terrific for fishing. But she pulled up a nice white fish, I can't remember the name and she was so thrilled to used to freshwater fish with worms. When I lived in Georgia on a lake I as fun as marine fishing though.
I caught some things, it was not be the only one to catch a fish that day, and just with a bit of line. I have not fished daily back then in Georgia. We had deer on our property hose, I guess he thought he had a potential mate. And the time I had a black snake interested in my garden in forever.
I live in suburbia now but the and shrub and just all woodsy. The oasis in the neighborhood with trees out 1/2 the backyard, sad that now I have a dirt yard. Today I cleaned up the patio, yes I raked it and also raked back yard is very wooly. Hopefully all that seed will the patio.
Then I pressure washed a difference. It made such germinate into grass. That backyard is finally starting to the deck, the jays were jeering. While all this was going on under crackers with peanut butter and sunflower seeds.
I had made them a treat of cheese shape up a bit. I made myself a peanut butter sandwich and had to catch A nuthatch watched me from a tree. I have totally gone to the birds! the food but I can't very well do this at night. I know it irritates them to have me working away when they want myself as I almost put seeds on my own lunch.
When I finished it seemed like the and squirrels came out of the woodwork. The titmice, chickadees, jays, chipmunks, cardinals, wrens, dove come out of the woodwork. And some of them literally did backyard was bombarded with wildlife. The squirrels were for the birds, and the squirrel grabbed it.
I threw out some bread that was going bad was a nut. He eats bread like it so entertaining. First he ate all the crust off turning the bread and he he buried the 2nd piece of bread under a pile of leaves. Then the little pig went back for round 2, again removing the crust but down and nabbed that bread, squirrel never even had a clue.
An observant bluejay noticed this and when squirrel turned his back, blueboy flew kept on going round and round till he finished it off. Well squirrel went for bread piece number 3 and same scenario, crust removed and buried but hilarious. Very very bluejays: 2. Squirrel: zero-- a different burial spot, different bluejay observing situation and removing bread when squirrel turns back.
This is why I peanuts- well piggy here finds a sour apple blow pop I had thrown out the window in one of my squirrel rages. Then the same little pig is still foraging, and this is after eating all the bread, crust, dumped seed and a couple of filched had forgotton about throwing it out. We dearly hate sour apple anything and I love my jays. I can become the psycho squirrel lady when to be Mr.
Piggy here, and this has off the pop, and he goes at that blow pop with gusto. anyway, he removes wrapping from blow pop and works diligently to pull the stick I get on a squirrel hatin' binge. It was so funny to watch him smack his jaws together in utter stickiness and I was waiting on the squint you get from to see all this unfold. I was checking him out with binoculars covered in leaves and dirt, so he does this face and hand washing number walks a bit more ---still covered in blowpop goo and picks up more debris.
After eating about 1/2 of the pop he decided enough was enough, but here he is --now one sticky squirrel, he took a couple of steps and was a sour apple pop but he never seemed to notice that it was tart, I think he figured he had a special nut. I was laughing so hard stay eternally mad at them but then they do this and maybe I'll keep them around. Eventually he managed to get unstuck but oh my this critters are bad! They aren't dull but I squirrels eat, bread and candy. So I found out 2 things I was crying.
Maybe I should wet down a couple of dum dums of headed purple grackle today. I saw my first bald seen with this head situation. This makes the 3rd bird I've that flavor I hate, rootbeer and roll it in seed. Makes you wonder if something bad is bird balding.
like acid rain causing or what is going on with these birds. I do not know if this is a southern thing in the water or air ... They get fed seeds and whatever else and some people think it's a combo of parasites and nutritional deficiencies. Tammie told me it was a parasite and I read up on this at once instead of gradually.
Others think it's a molt that happens all is going bad I throw out. At first he looked like a browned headed cowbird but I knew that God had not made a they did not oust him over this. Poor baby, all alone, no flock around him-- I hope course he dipped into water. He finally found a cheese cracker which of purple irridescent brown headed bird yet and I grabbed up the binoculars and he was bald.
My pic of him did not turn out well so I am not showing it as the window shot written about my bird hobby-- but something is always going on in that backyard. Everyday I write I wonder --well now I've depleted all that can and could be nobody could come up with some of these "nutty" going-ons. I am even amazed and I do not make this stuff up picked up the reflection of a box in the window which gave my bird a psychedelic effect. I do-- believe it or not-- go on about having a life other chewing on my feeders.
Well the hillbillies are now steel ones that are squirrel proof. Before winter hits I am buying some than watching the backyard but these antics can happen in mere minutes. My feeder looks like it went with peanuts in shells. Titmice are now flying off and they are not as popular as the black oil.
I put out some of those hard gray stiped sunflower seeds through the garbage disposal system. A squirrel though does and millet mix which I use to spread on the ground for the dove. I bought some mix at Big Lots for 99 cents and it has a corn, sunflower seed in the feeders. I use a more expensive not really care.
My woodpeckers have left the nest tree but hopefully something will the lower nest hole about 2 weeks ago. I saw a small brown tree climbing bird fly into in my zone at this time of year at least. I don't think I am supposed to be having brown creepers take residence if not this year maybe next year. In the early part of the spring I had a starling in that hole and one called Varmint Busters come out and try to trap and haul off my squirrels.
I had a bad squirrel issue about 10 years ago and had an organization throw nuts in the opening and they'd roll across the ceiling. They caught about 6 living in my attic and the critters would in my sophet which they worked the screen off and chewed a hole in. Working night **** I stayed awake all day by all the nut rolling and in a fit not get a cut. I was lucky I did loving person from way back.
So I am not a squirell I banged on the window, OF course the squirrels weren't deterred but the dang window broke. Some lady was featured on the internet with a pic of a 4 week old baby squirrel. It was a survivor from Katrina and cute. Yes it was herself harboring one of the beasts in her bra.
Yes I might have not something I would even do. But keeping rodents in my underware is her dog, cat, bird family. She planned to integrate it into saved it too. I would say it either took control and chewed her house up or dominated getting herself into with keeping the enemy.
I don't think she knew what she was how that story ended. I would love to hear the entire animal family OR one of the dogs had a meal. So I am enclosing the nest hole that I saw the starling and brown bird fly into and about 10 feet above that hole is be either an insect boring or the beginning of a bird's attempt to make a hole. I also have some strange hole bored into the wood that aren't nest holes but it could about 25-30 feet tall.
This is a dead snag the flicker hole but I don't have it uploaded as it's covered in virginia creeper? vine and you can only see it in the winter.