New babies!

Not ours...Papa and Mama cardinals'! :-)



Here's Papa in the background trying to get close (if this pesky photographer would ever leave!) ...the nest is in this little maple tree on the right...isn't even in the ground yet, and they've built a nest.

The nest

The little ones...brand spankin' new! (No, they're not exactly pretty yet.) Only one shell left in the nest...the parents must get rid of the shell after they hatch...so he must be really new!

Waiting for food...any time I would bump the nest or rustle close by, that little beak would open up WIDE!


Here are the eggs before they hatched...rather pretty!

Bluebird news

The bluebirds were beginning to build a nest in the new bluebird house this morning. How exciting! I had just bought some mealworms and put some out for them to try and lure them, but looks like they came on their own. Now tonight there's not much activity and there's not much of a nest built, but the mealworms are all gone! We were not here during the day to watch them, so not sure what happened, but hopefully they are still around and will finish what they started. I probably won't get any pictures as the house is a ways from our back deck.

In other birding news, I set some things out to attract the Baltimore Orioles back...a feeder with sugar water and a bowl of grape jelly! That's what they suggested at the bird store! :-) I'll let you know how that goes.


Also bought a suet cage and cake and it will be fun to see what we get on there. Nuthatches and woodpeckers are supposed to like those.

Found a robin's nest in a crabapple tree. I lifted Logan up and he said he saw some blue eggs, so we hope he's learning his colors correctly! I'll have to see if I can get up there and get a picture without knocking the nest down. :-)

Birds of the day

Mrs. Wren

A golden couple

More birds!

We've spotted some Baltimore Orioles around our place...they're such a bright spot of orange...and here is the female. She was enjoying the blossoms on this honeysuckle.

Here is a lovely Yellow Warbler. I believe it is either a female or a young warbler. The male has more noticeable brown streaks on his chest. She hopped up and down the branches of the tree...they feed on insects on the leaves.

And the other day I caught the Momma wren going into the wren house we put up (there is a nest of sticks in it!). House is occupied! And now we get to hear the beautiful singing! It's hanging in a tree just right off our deck.

Mr. Bluebird sitting on our gutter the other day.

A finch on our feeder...still trying to figure out if it's a Purple Finch or House Finch. I want to catch a Goldfinch on the feeder, too. They are SO bright!

Bird sighting

I just walked outside to throw out the trash and heard the most beautiful songbird...I managed to get a good look at it and found it in the bird book...it's a Brown Thrasher. They are known for their distinctive melodies. I'm going to try and get a recording of his singing.

I got a picture with my 200 mm lens, but you can't see him very well in this picture.




Here's a stock photo showing the Brown Thrasher a lot better!