Bet you can't say this post's title 5x really fast. Seriously, I had to take these photos from indoors, through a glass window, and from several yards away...I'm pretty sure I'm minus one tiny bird too small to get the camera to focus on, plus the recently spotted Eastern bluebirds did not come in today (that I know of)...seeing those a few days ago was a lifer experience! (Well, sort of...I'm pretty sure I saw at least one somewhere while living in S Florida for those 6 months before we bought our house in NE Florida, but it was one of those zingers and all I saw was a flash of bright blue)...
Ok, I'll point out the obvious here and say that the birds have discovered the newly hung bird feeders. When we left for Hawaii the end of May, the tall pole for hanging feeders on was firmly in place (or so we thought). This was left by the previous, original home owner. Somewhere in July my brother-in-law checked up on the house for us and discovered the pole lying on the ground, broken. SIGH. Turned out the metal had rotted through and...snap. And I have yet to get to Home Depot to buy a new one, so the old shorter one was stuck in the ground in the meantime. At least one squirrel leaps above the shortened cone gizmo meant to keep him off, and shimmies up to the platform feeder. I know, I know, I NEED to buy a new pole! I want to put it in a particular place, not where it had been before, and this means chopping down the 8 foot "sprouts" from a magnolia tree stump...the thing looks like a big bush after 5-6 months of growth...anywho, it's one of many items on my to-do list (or hubby's)...at least the birds have found the feeders! The hoards seem to come flocking in all at the same time, briefly, once a day around 3 PM-ish. The N Cardinals are plentiful and frequent visitors to both the feeders and the ground below them. These photos were all taken during within about 15 min. today.
It appears that the tufted titmouses (titmice ?) are a year-round bird here...
Wouldn't you know, I can't find my Eastern bird books and this wren isn't in the W book so I can't ID it as yet...only one that I can conjure up mentally is "Carolina" ?
I do know female goldfinches when I see them....
Well, is it a house finch, purple finch, or Cassin's finch?? I'd say it isn't a Cassin's, too much color, and the W book says we don't have house finches here in Florida..? Hmm.
A chipping sparrow made its debut...
And there are always varying colors of N cardinals about...
...Just this one deep red male...
The blue jay can be heard before seen, what a squawker...
