Welcome to Bird Photos, July 2017 Thread

We came here from : The thread "Bird Photos, June 2017" in Gardening for Butterflies, Birds and Bees forum

Here is an angry bird, actually there are a pair of them yelling at my cat. All day long they keep taunting my cat. This is the challenge I face of having a cat and a yard full of birds. My cat is very good at hunting so they must beware.
Anole

a couple cell phone shots I keep forgetting to post
a young blackbird drinking from our waterfall while I was sitting right next to it.

Would go fishing but I guess someone would rather eat the bait

Happy 4th everyone! Hope everyone has been having a safe and fun holiday weekend.

I was out in the yard earlier and heard young birds cheeping ... noticed two adult Red-bellied Woodpeckers flitting back and force from the ground to a palm tree and then to oak trees in my front yard. I spotted two juveniles in separate trees and the parents were back and forth feeding them. The female at one point appeared like she had been in a birdbath and spent time preening and drying her wings.

An adult Woodpecker and one juvenile were around earlier. The parent would fly to a feeder and grab a seed and the little one would scream to be fed. I managed to get one picture of baby being fed. Then I watched the adult flying back and forth, grabbing sunflower seeds from a feeder and flying to a palm tree or an oak tree where it stuffed the seed into the palm fiber and beneath the bark in the oak. The adults are teaching their young by sometimes feeding them a treat and other times waiting for them to go find the hidden, stored food. It's so much fun to watch birds!

Adult, male ............................................... Juvenile


Adult, stuffing seeds into palm tree fiber and beneath oak bark


Adult feeding the juvenile and then the little one finding hidden seed in the tree bark

I agree that watching them is fun. I've been watching papa oriole teaching the youngsters how to use the nectar feeder. Always good to see dad take interest in his offspring.

plantladylin said:An adult Woodpecker and one juvenile were around earlier. The parent would fly to a feeder and grab a seed and the little one would scream to be fed. I managed to get one picture of baby being fed. Then I watched the adult flying back and forth, grabbing sunflower seeds from a feeder and flying to a palm tree or an oak tree where it stuffed the seed into the palm fiber and beneath the bark in the oak. The adults are teaching their young by sometimes feeding them a treat and other times waiting for them to go find the hidden, stored food. It's so much fun to watch birds!

Adult, male ............................................... Juvenile


Adult, stuffing seeds into palm tree fiber and beneath oak bark


Adult feeding the juvenile and then the little one finding hidden seed in the tree bark

Lin, these pictures are priceless! Well done!

Thanks Joanna!

Baby birds sure keep their parents busy that's for sure; both mama and papa have been at it all day today with their young ones! More photos from a few minutes ago ... the one of baby being fed was in very poor light




Blue Jay

Awesome pictures, Lin!

Thank you.

I the silhouette , and the fact the parents are teaching the young ones to look for and store food, Lin.

krobra said:I the silhouette...

I second that @plantladylin! That's one for the next photo contest!

In my yard today ....

Northern Cardinals, a juvenile and an adult male:


Hawk with Mockingbirds on attack once again:


There were two juvenile Red-bellied Woodpeckers visited a birdbath this morning. At one point, one of them wanted the birdbath all to himself so he chased his sibling off.



Then a Blue Jay landed on one side of the birdbath and the juvie woodpecker wasn't too happy but the jay won and the little WP took off to a nearby tree.

Wonderful photos, everyone!
We've been away for a few days so I have lots of catch-up to do. But today I saw a rare blue-headed yellow wagtail here and got excited about it:




The pics are cropped - I was some distance from the bird and didn't have a suitable lens on the camera... But these are the first photos I have ever taken of this bird (long name for a little bird!)

Mika, that is a long name for such a little cutie!

A few birds this afternoon



and just for the fun of it ...

Ahh, squirrels. We have baby squirrels and baby rabbits in the garden right now, as well as baby birds. I love living in the countryside!

The Hawk is back this evening and the Mockingbirds are not happy! The Hawk was perched on a power line with the birds dive bombing him and he flew to the same pine tree in a neighbors yard with the Mockingbirds in pursuit. Poor lighting again ...

A few from Happily EverAfter today.

Finch feeder is busy today. Waiting room only.




Red-bellied Woodpecker on the suet