Enjoyment of the Back Yard Birds

August 2, 2019

Summer brings the goldfinches, usually in the company of the pine warblers.

August 3, 2019

And where there are bird feeders, there are also squirrels!

August 4, 2019

The cardinals are beginning to grow back their feathers after their summer molt.

August 6, 2019

The downy woodpecker is a pleasant daily visitor.

September 6, 2019

For most of the summer we have had an alpha rubythroat that has dominated the feeder so that other hummingbirds had to sneak in. But at this time he seems to have lost his grip, and these two hummingbirds, though maybe not entirely friendly to each other, did act in such a way that both got some food.

This was a pretty amazing show of aerial acrobatics. They were dancing in mid-air.

This was one of the rare times when they both sat down for a few moments to eat. Maybe they were just tuckered out from all that flying about.