Bird Watching Club

I take better plant pics! ;o))

Aviva,, it is not impossible, and you will get a thrill when it happens. I'm a native Floridian, so robins have been a life-long rare sighting for me.

I have cardinals, blue jays, Carolina wren, thrasher and various woodpeckers at my feeder. And I saw a hummingbird yesterday,, so that was thrilling. I don't have a nectar feeder out, as I'm too lazy to maintain one.

Teka, glad you enjoyed the video. I tried to get some shots of my hummingbird at my feeder for the first time. She is very skittish.

One of my neighbors used to talk about winter robins here in Illinois so if we can have winter robins maybe you Floridians can have summer robins. I have seen robins here in the winter but I just figured they were early birds. You know, the ones that get the worms. LOL

I am SO excited. I saw my first male at my hummer feeder this evening. Maybe he was checking out all the young ladies flying in! Yes, Teka I can imagine it would be exhausting. When I was at the nature center and got my practice shots with all the hummers coming in and out having a single feeder at your house is a whole other challenge! I am determined though if I have to sit inside staring out the window all day. LOL

That is an idea. I have continuous shooting on my new camera which is pretty fast frames per second so I should eventually be able to get something decent..... I hope anyway. I did post some hummer pics a few weeks ago and I was able to get some in flight pics with some continuous shooting. I set up my feeder so I could take pics from inside. I wasn't sure if they would come since I put the feeder up for the first time ever a little later in season since I help take care of my mom for three weeks in May and am gone from my home.That is why I didn't get it up until June. In hindsight I would have placed the feeder directly in front of my patio door so it would have been a little easier taking some pics. I am just thrilled they are coming period. Next year I may put out more feeders but I still have the issue of going back and forth taking care of my mom so I haven't figured out how I will deal with that in a few weeks. I have a lady that takes care of my flowers but to ask someone to clean and fill your hummer feeder is a whole other thing. So I will probably have to take the feeder down when I am gone. I hate the thought of that though. However quite a few of my neighbors feed the hummers so they will still have food and plenty of flowers around as well.

Thanks Joanne.

I have spent my whole life trying to get all my ducks in a row. LOL Maybe I finally succeeded!

I don't know if that one is Mom or Dad. As i have watched them over the course of a couple of days one adult seems to be off by itself and lets the other adult care for the babies. Ummm. Wonder who that could be. However the pic where the adult is raising it's wings i thought might be the Dad protecting the family but just not sure. I had a meeting tonight and passed that pond and saw them swimming around. I need to go maybe later in the day. They seem to be either eating or preening and I would like to get some pics of them just swimming. We'll see.

Thanks glennie. You might like these I got from last night. I don't know what's up with one of the adults but it did not want to participate in the family swim. It was pretty close to me on the bank. I had to keep watching very carefully that it didn't start getting upset with me. I can just hear their conversation. Honey, it's your turn to take the kids for a swim. These pics are sort of the same but different. The water has these unique reflections that almost make the photos appear like impressionistic paintings.

Thanks glennie.

Nancy, please keep the lovely pics coming! ;o)

We had a hot week that cooled down with thunderstorms moving through last night. I've been busy weeding the 3 flower beds.

Want to share a funny bird story. My dog (the one in my pic) started chasing large birds about 6 months ago. I have a pond behind me and one across the street and if she sees a heron or egret or other large bird, she want to stalk it and go after it. She's on a leash so she doesn't get that far, but you can see her trying. Also vultures (yuck),,,, when there is road kill and there are some hanging around, again she wants to go after it. I don't know why she started doing that, she is very low energy and usually only chases the little lizards around here. Ignores squirrels.

So,,,, we were at my neighbor's, who has a very large high def TV. Very very nice TV,, excellent picture,,,, very realistic looking. It cost over $1000 !! So we are visiting, and there is some nature program on. Tiger eating its kill. Neighbor says,,, look Ava is watching TV. And she seemed to be really staring at the screen. Then the picture changed and there was a close up of a vulture, going after the tiger's kill remains. Ava's ears went up,, then she crouched and started stalking towards the TV! My neighbor is laughing, but I quickly grabbed her collar. Neighbor says, no, I want to see what she will do. I said, I don't want her jumping on your TV and knocking it over! (It sits on a cabinet, about waist high) Ava doesn't jump very well, but I didn't want this to be the time that she managed to jump!! We thought it was pretty funny.

Just the kinds of birds that Ava loves to chase! Great pics!!

Thanks Glennie and Teka. I will add some hummingbird pics soon. I got a bunch of them yesterday at this nature center near my mom's. Yes, I imagine Ava would have a field day with all of the egrets and herons in this marsh.

Nancy, nice close-up pics!!!!

I think you and cat will continue to be observed by the little hummer. ;o)

Thanks Teka and Glennie.

I hope to see the little hummer continue it's peek a boo into my patio door.