The birds have been very busy this week, so this is going to be a bird only Second Look. The plants will have to wait.
Here are somethings I saw this week
during a Second Look.
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| We had a lot of rain this week, but the birds came out anyway. You can see this female cardinal looks a little wet. |
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| This blue jay looks soggy also. |
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| Blue jay on a drier day. |
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It may have rained a lot this week, but the real event was a visit from a pileated woodpecker.
One reason for the excitement was that these are big birds. I'm guessing that this one is about 15"-20" long.
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| Compare the pileated woodpecker to this little chipping sparrow that is only about 3" long. (You can use the suet feeder as a scale.) |
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Male cardinal
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| Catbird |
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| Male bluebird and white-breasted nuthatch. |
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| Speaking of bluebirds, their eggs hatched this week. This picture was taken on Monday. |
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| By Tuesday, all five had hatched. |
Love these! Soggy birds, dry birds, baby birds... what a variety, and all great snapshots :o) Thanks for sharing and spreading smiles!
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by Hannah. I have a lot of smiles watching these birds. If someone else gets a smile too, so much the better.
DeleteYour pileated woodpecker picture is neat--that really is a big bird! Our finches have hatched--we think there are 4 babies but the nest is in a hard spot to see, so there may be 5. Mama robin is faithfully sitting on her nest so we are expecting more babies soon. I love all the bird songs at this time of year, even if they do wake me early in the morning. :)
ReplyDeleteI don't know about your finches, but I find most baby birds lay on top of each other so it is hard to count them sometimes. Also, since we got new windows, we don't hear nearly as many birds as we used to. (We have them closed most times because of allergy reasons.)
DeleteBetween the nesting birds and the flowers, spring is a really fun season.
Love your pictures as usual! I love the pileated woodpecker. We used to have one that visited a nearly dead tree in our yard daily. When we had the tree taken out the woodpecker also left. I can hear his distinctive rap in the distance, so I guess he found another pine infested with pine beetles.
ReplyDeleteWe have some deadish trees in the back of our lot with woodpecker holes in them. I would love to see if anything is nesting in there. However, they're too far away to see them from the house.
DeleteWe don't get regular visits from pileateds--maybe just a couple of times/year, so they really do cause a lot of excitement when we see them.
Look at all those birds! And baby blue birds! That's so exciting :) The woodpeckers we have in our yard are much smaller, perhaps the size of a blue jay. I keep hoping a big crane will one day land on my bird feeder, but the most excitement it's seen this week have been the darn squirrels.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the second look, I always enjoy it very much.
Awwww... the soggy blue jay looks like he needs a hug!
ReplyDeleteI think some of that look is just his coloring, but he doesn't look very happy, does he?
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