Project: One photo a day (but not necessarily every day)

[bironi]

We're seeing some western tanagers.
No pics, but hoping they''ll visit our feeders.
Did have a grosbeak visit today.

[guido]

Saw a fleeting scarlet tanager yesterday morning on a walk, but they don't get to the house often,

The rose breasted grosbeak couple checked in today for us as well, but they they are a bit more camera shy...

No hummingbirds yet though...

[SpeedyChix]

[Mabouya]

No hummingbirds yet though...

The hummers are out near me. (far western suburbs of St Louis, MO)

A few days ago I was thinking that maybe I should put out the feeder, but hadn't seen any yet so I didn't feel much pressure to do so. Then on Sunday, after completing my 30 minutes of weed-whacking near the street, as I was collecting some stuff to put it away in the garage, I heard the tell-tale bzzzz, bzzzz (although, I suppose hmmmm, hmmmm would be more accurate) of a humming-bird's wings. That was enough to motivate me to put out a feeder (I have several that I rotate in the same location to give me a chance to clean the dirty one at my leisure and still have one out) so I mixed up some sugar water (4 parts water to one part sugar) and put it in the usual location. I checked today before coming in to work and it looked like the level was down a bit. Happily the weather isn't super-hot (yet) so it hopefully won't go bad in just a few days.

[bironi]

Wow,
That looks upscale.
Unless this is the bunny hop repetitious course.
Nice labor effort either way.
Kudos!
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[j44ke]

Saw a fleeting scarlet tanager yesterday morning on a walk, but they don't get to the house often,

The rose breasted grosbeak couple checked in today for us as well, but they they are a bit more camera shy...

No hummingbirds yet though...

Cold front this weekend will knock them back. Flower advance is behind schedule also. But put out your feeders this weekend to catch any early arrivals who will need the extra energy to stay alive in the near freezing nighttime temperatures and then the rest will start arriving mid to late next week. That's my read of things at least!

[guido]

[Matthew Strongin]

[j44ke]

Very dapper bird.

Woke up this morning to one singing in the Callery Pear next door. Watched him sing and eat pear blossoms until he saw me at the window and scrammed. They do not hang around when people show up, that's for sure.

[72gmc]

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A short, happy story in a flower pot. They fledged earlier this week.

[guido]

Tree just keeps giving...



(New yard bird!)

ps. the hummingbird arrived this morning

[Mabouya]

Tree just keeps giving...

And happily, I very much doubt that the birds will treat it in the same manner as the human did in Shel Silverstein's book.

[SlowPokePete]

May 8, 2020 by SPP™ SlowPokePete, on Flickr

SPP

[j44ke]

Hmm, this wasn't in the brochure.



Guido, that's a nice shot of the indigo bunting!

[j44ke]

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A short, happy story in a flower pot. They fledged earlier this week.

What are they Dan? Trying to think what would be that dark and that size. Juncos?

[guido]

[SlowPokePete]

b.a.n.k.s.y

Banksy by SPP™ SlowPokePete, on Flickr

SPP

[j44ke]

Guy, is that a crabapple? We might have to get one of those! Looks very popular with all the fancy birds. :-)

[guido]

Guy, is that a crabapple? We might have to get one of those! Looks very popular with all the fancy birds. :-)

Yes it is a crabapple. Most popular tree in the yard!

[rwsaunders]

We’ve had feeders in our yard forever but this is the first year for orioles and man are they bright...at least he is. They’ve been on the suet feeder and after I read that they like fruit and couldn’t figure it out, I noticed that the suet has berries in it. There you go...those buggers are smart.