Birds And Blooms

You're as handy as a pocket on a shirt. I've been at this location seven years now, Last year for the first time a pair of brown thrasher showed up in my bank yard. Then one morning I looked out and there were six thrishers. I quite feeding the birds about a month ago because I got a little puny, dragging, didn't feel my oxygen was doing me much good. All my birds have left me except for apace of cardinals, a couple of blur Jay's and sparrows and finches. I haven't seen any doves in a while. One of my feeders needs overhauling or replacing. I have two feeders and don't think much of either one. Thanks for the info.

 

I have never had a blue jay at my feeders. I know we have them here but they don't come to the feeder. I used to wish for one but an online friend told me that they are very aggressive and won't let other birds eat. So, now, I'm glad I don't have them.

 

We have had many blue jays. They were among the first to visit our feeders. We find they share as well as any other birds. Something else I have found when left to their own devises, almost all birds are aggressive with each other, all of them, much more than they are aggressive with each other. The most aggressive bird to visit and hang around for an entire season are the Euro-Middle eastern ring necked doves which came to this country in the 1980s. We have never been successive with hummingbirds. They will come around, look us over, check out our feeders but not try them. Don't know why. I have no limb to hang anything but I am going try to make airdrop feeder.

 

Most people think of doves as peaceful but they will fight over food just like any of the others. I haven't seen ring necked doves unless it's what we call a pidgin.

 

LOL. Here's the Ringneck Dove.

 

The White Winged Dove.

 

And of course the Mourning Dove, which you have.

That's all that come my way.
Of the three, the ring neck is the most aggressive.

 

I'm not sure what this one is. I think he is some kind of warbler.

 

Red bellied woodpecker.

 

This was quite an expensive 'squirrel proof' feeder

 

A grey Heron in Regents park, London

 

Migratory Turkey Vultures:

These birds stop by our house twice a year, during migration to the South, and then to the North.

They stop in the tree to dry their wings and then they're off.

They have wing spans of 6 to 7 feet.
Hal