In the back yard today...

[AgentOrange]

Yesterday I had a new visitor to my bird feeder.
I had never seen this little fellow before.
I'm thinking it is a Rose Breasted Grosbeak??



Sorry about the picture quality. Of course just when a new bird shows up the battery in my camera is dead, so I used my cell phone ( Galaxy S4).

Time to fill up the bird feeders I gave you.
That Rose-breasted Grosbeak will be coming by your house headed South any day. I have seen them here as early as now, but generally around first of October.

[TNRabbit R.I.P.]

finally got some bird seed for the backyard. I picked up two 50 pound bags of black oil sunflower and safflower seeds.

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Had a TON of visitors yesterday but no pics. Just took these a few minutes ago....

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Got a couple of Niger seed feeders out & the hummingbird feeder hung yesterday. Here's a 6 a.m. pic:



The reflection is off the glass bottle of the hummer feeder....

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Had a DIFFERENT visitor to the bird feeder today!

[AgentOrange]

Good fun !!
I bet she can eat some food.

I rarely have seen a deer in my yard. I see their tracks at the lake and often see them when I am on the road.
I guess they mainly visit after dark.

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[Rorschach]

not a bird -- maybe a horse fly

[TOAD]

I don't have any snakes in my yard, but I do have a problem with some other critters that AO has issues with.



These busy little fellows are probably from hives on the farm just up the road.

I sprayed them down with water and put a smear of petroleum jelly around the join where the feeder snaps apart for cleaning.
I didn't see any leakage, but this is the area the bees were attracted to, not the flower openings.

***:bee:*No bees were harmed for the making of this post :bee:***

This appears to be working, and that is a good thing as the hummingbird wars have started.:excitement:
I have a very large charm of hummers doing aerial acrobatics around my feeders at this time.

I'm also having a huge chattering of starlings that descend on my watering station every morning for a bath.
I know that's what bird baths are for, but when this large scourge arrives their numbers are such that it looks like the leaves are falling from the trees. They are large messy birds and I have to clean out all the birdbaths every time after they visit.
At least they are too big for my feeders, my guess is that they are raiding that poor farmers millet field.

[Rorschach]

bee careful

[TOAD]

AO sent me this swell new bird feeder / water station for my birthday.
The wife fell in love with it, and wanted me to hang it on the edge of the back porch.




Looks like even the trees approve.
Thanks, Bill.

[Fenders]

That is one good looking tree. I believe I am getting a woody!

[AgentOrange]

Red-winged Blackbird in the yard today. I see one here a couple times a year.