they are gorgeousin Michigan's Upper Peninsula, I saw a bunch of evening grosbeaks.
great photos, love the monarchOther notables for New Year's Day: tooth-billed bowerbird, black-faced monarch, helmeted friarbird and golden whistler. (My pics. Taken earlier.)
utterly superb!These are the kids that play up outside my studio window... Superb Blue Wrens.
that junco's so coolI have daily flocks of dark-eyed juncos, black-capped chickadees, Northern Flickers, a spotted towhee couple,
I'm in - I love birds, always have, and we have so many species around us down here in the Highlands. I just wish my eyes were younger and quicker at spotting them. These are the kids that play up outside my studio window... Superb Blue Wrens....
Gee, I read that wrong. Twice.Darn hard to beat Aussie birds with budgies and parakeets flocking together in trees.
Gee, I read that wrong. Twice.
I really need to spot the nest in my rhody before they lay eggs. I've heard them doing the mating swoop over the last few days. Once there are eggs, I'll never get close enough to find it without getting assaulted.
Lovely little hummingbirds. I want one.
They breed locally this time of year? I knew the Anna's hung around all year, but didn't realize they bred - wasn't sure there'd be enough food to raise kids in winter, what with their high metabolic needs.
I've been gradually coaxing crows toward me by tossing them bits of breakfast cereal. They won't come close though, and I'm convinced it's because of the humming birds. Vicious little things.Well this is what I can't figure out. Because they're doing that dive-swoop of mating all over my neighborhood. I have been hearing the whistle their tail-feathers make while walking my dogs. Either they're hooking up or it's one confused male moving tree to tree.
(Is it possible they find a mate and then take some time to build a nest together? I really don't know what's going on.)
As to the second part of your post, the Bully the Hummer hovered "menacingly" in front of a crow that perched on my roof above the feeder this morning. I couldn't see the crow's side of the encounter but I'm pretty sure it was unimpressed. Still, I wouldn't want a hummingbird beak in the eye if I were the crow. I've had to duck their battles on many occasions while tending my garden.
None of us look elegant when we're eating, unfortunately.Dusky honeyeaters are elegant little birds, something which is lost in that photo.