Birds Everywhere!!!!

[smurfy]

23 minutes ago, Wanderer said:

Late hatch due to a cold spring?

So what's wrong with cold spring??? I do live there ya know!!

 

We have some birds but not many here or at the cabin!!

[fishingstar]

All birds are up here except hummingbirds. It seems like only 4 or 5 of them.

[Hawg]

Ton of orioles now, I really like those. I also have some really tiny birds around I’ve never seen before. Leech, are the ones in your picture always puffy like that? Mine are super skinny. I thought maybe baby pine Siskins but there’s too many to not be a certain bird, I’ll have to try for a picture. These are hardly bigger than a Hummer, maybe 1 1/2 the size of a hummer. All brown striped like all the other small birds, kind of appear finch-like. 

[Mike89]

wrens?

[Hawg]

Could be but not puffy like Leech’s picture. Real skinny little things. Been too busy doing nothing to try for a picture. I’ve seen a few strange birds this year but it is juvenile season and they can be hard to tell what they are too. 

[Hawg]

I’m not sure how many of you have seen this, and I haven’t quite figured it out, but it’s almost mine blowing how they figure this stuff out. Click the link, enter your county, and be amazed. https://dashboard.birdcast.info/?utm_source=Cornell+Lab+eNews&utm_campaign=b6e0b49189-Cornell-Lab-eNews-August-2022&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_47588b5758-b6e0b49189-345775613

Edited August 19, 2022 by Hawg

[Mike89]

interesting!!!  thanks!! 

[Hawg]

Something interesting. I first saw this a week or two ago And at that time one of the migrating birds was Orioles. Now Orioles are no longer on the list of migrating birds and I went from a jar of grape jelly a week and a half ago to seldom seeing one anymore. Have Orioles already left? Are you guys seeing any? Seems early but it’s been a weird year. 

[smurfy]

when the orioles first come back i have a bunch but once they start nesting they dont seem to come back, and this happens every year...........i took my oriole feeders down a long time ago!!!!!!!!

 

dont remember where i was driving last week but the power line was packed with birds. i thought they were purple martins at first, but pretty sure they were barn swallows!!!!!!

[fishingstar]

I have a steady flow of orioles. very slow for about a month around nesting. started seeing the young come in with the adults and now a jar lasts around a week.

[chaffmj]

Here is a pair of American goldfinches.

 

[Hawg]

Should we change this post to “Birds Nowhere”? Poof, gone. Weird year!

[fishingstar]

I still have hummingbirds flying a round.  pulled the jelly over the weekend I haven't seen a oriole for a week now. 

[smurfy]

the hummers about all disappeared at the cabin in a w5 day span. there where still a few around, but i pulled the feeders before i left sunday. we never really did have alot of other birds all summer. 4 suet cakes would last over a month and the 3 sunflower feeders never really emptied between trips.

 

at home i got birds galore. most i've seen in a while. still hummingbirds around too. 

 

we have 4 sedium flower plants in the garden flower bed.......and they are just loaded with honeybees and yellow jackets!!!!!!!

[Hawg]

My late raspberries are racing the frost to redden. They are absolutely covered with those brown fuzzy honeybees! I haven’t seen this many in years. 

[chaffmj]

This Pileated was into the berries!

 

[smurfy]

starting to see some Juncos. last night 1 saw a group of 10 robins together headed south??? where they trying to tell me something???? i also have alot of finches out back, but dang they make a mess. good thing i have the basket under the feeder, half the sunflower seeds arent even opened, so..they go back in the feeder to recycle, especially at the cost of them !!!!!!!!

[smurfy]

had a buch of birds 2 weeks ago...........now not so much........3rd weekend of deer hunting had a nice bunch of evening grosbeaks around...as well as a flying squirrel up at the cabin!!!!!

[chaffmj]

Here are some evening grosbeaks. Haven't seen any pine grosbeaks yet.

 

[smurfy]

here on the home front  the birds have been pretty scarce the last 3 weeks..........until this morning. had a bunch of finches at the feeders. and now the feeders are all full and void of wet soggy seeds!!!!!!!!!

[smurfy]

Well I'm ready for the orioles!!

[fishingstar]

That should last until June when the ants find your feeders.

[smurfy]

If it's anything like last year I didn't have much of an ant issue.

[fishingstar]

you did give me the idea to stock up now. were do you get yours? 

[smurfy]

2 minutes ago, fishingstar said:

you did give me the idea to stock up now. were do you get yours? 

i work part time stocking shelves at the local grocery store.......Teals in cold spring. the store is supplied by nash finch and is an our family brand store!!!!!

 

i dont go to many different grocery stores but that is the only store i see that smart brand.  they were 2 for $5.99.  i really like the brands vinegar also. i've noticed also the orioles dont really care who makes the grape jelly!!!!!!