Daddy (lower right) brought two of his babies to the feeders today and they were all over the woodpecker feeder. Sadly I haven't seen the flicker or hairy woodpecker in quite a while. These big babies were fun to watch. You can see they are not as red as the male yet (but darker than the adult female already).
@mamamia@maggiemae - Thanks Joanne and Maggiemae. It was fun to watch them today. They are pretty shy so I couldn't get too close. Had to do major cropping.
@pflaume - Thanks Lisa - not as clear as I would have liked - it was through a window and I had to crop a lot.....but yes - it was fun to watch them. Greedy babies.
This is really sweet seeing them all together. Great capture. I have a lot of cardinals, blue jays and woodpeckers flitting around all day but I just can't get a good or close enough shot. You have the knack of getting these great bird shots.
Fun capture, Jan. Looks like a great crowd. I was wondering if you know anything about the young lady from last night that was having the problems. I didn't get a chance to read the feed all through, but I am so very concerned. I took a quick check today and didn't see any updates, I was hoping you could tell me how things ended up? Did she get help?
I have company and will be super busy this weekend but will be trying to check in. Thanks for anything you can tell me.
@bristolrose - Thanks Kathryn - the grosbeaks/finches/woodpeckers are shy - I can only get them through the window. On the office side of my house, I have a shade garden, and then a path and beyond that we have left it natural to provide habitat for the birds. We hung up the feeders so I can see them from my home office - that's how I get the pics. I am guessing they are 30-50ft away depending on which feeder they are on. Now it's summer I have the screen on the one side of the window so I can open it - and that limits my field of view a bit. On the other hand, the siskins are not shy at all. One landed on me this morning when I was filling the feeder, chittering at me to hurry up.
@chard - it really fun to watch them them, Richard - I love that we have so many birds around here. @valanne@paulaw@steviepix@dakotaburns@rhos@swilde@luvmynynix@ashesand - thanks so much for the lovely comments. We do enjoy watching the baby grosbeaks. @cazann - awww - that sounds wonderful Caz - did you get a pic? @eyesmile - thanks for the fav, Gena - glad you like the baby grosbeaks.
I have company and will be super busy this weekend but will be trying to check in. Thanks for anything you can tell me.
@valanne @paulaw @steviepix @dakotaburns @rhos @swilde @luvmynynix @ashesand - thanks so much for the lovely comments. We do enjoy watching the baby grosbeaks.
@cazann - awww - that sounds wonderful Caz - did you get a pic?
@eyesmile - thanks for the fav, Gena - glad you like the baby grosbeaks.