Neighborhood Birds

Orchard Oriole

Yellow Warbler

Chickadee
We birded our neighborhood park this morning and ran into a few migrating birds.

Black-capped Chickadee

Bathing Beauties: Chickadee, Nuthatch, Titmouse

 

On Saturday we had more than the usual number of birds visiting our backyard water feature.  They are so entertaining, and it really delights us.  However, we promise to leave our backyard when the fall migration picks up, so hopefully we'll have more varied photographs to entertain our blog visitors. We've been meaning to go to Cape May, Brigantine, the Meadowlands, maybe even Dauphin Island, so check back soon to see what we encounter.

Backyard Feeder Birds: Juvenile Cardinal, Chickadee, and Titmouse

Northern Cardinal


Tufted Titmouse


Chickadee

Robin and Chickadee keeping cool

One evening, it was almost 100 degrees when we saw this robin just plopped in the waterfall. A chickadee came by and joined in.

Goldfinch and Chickadee

The Chickade can't stay still and confuses the goldfinches at the feeder.

It's too hot for us to go far. We went to Dairy Queen to get the new (to NJ at least) Blizzard minis. Otherwise, we've just been sitting out, having a glass of wine and waiting for birds to come by. Oh, we also had the peach salsa from Terhune farms which may be better than the nectarine. Mike set up the ladder, put the tripod on top of it, and set up the birdcam to video the baby wrens first flights. Unfortunately, wrens are too small or the motion sensor isn't sensitive enough so the birdcam didn't capture it. There's a good video of Chris looking into the birdcam asking if it's on, but Mike has promised not to post it.

Summer Backyard Birds in New Jersey

Robin

Nuthatch

Chickadee

One very hot day, we caught this robin taking a bath in our waterfall.

The nuthatches have been very active on the tree trunks but rarely are found on the ground.

We've had quite a few chickadees. They also enjoy the waterfall, but they have also been coming to the tree closest to our deck.

Waterfall birds; chickadee and blue jay

Chris always enjoys when the backyard birds enjoy her waterfall.

Summer Backyard Birds in New Jersey: Chickadee, Robin, Catbird

Black-capped Chickadee

American Robin

Gray Catbird

Although the spring migration has ended, there still are quite a few birds in our backyard. This year, the antics of the catbirds are particularly amusing. They eat the jelly that we had set out for the orioles and they eat the insects that Chris stirs up while planting. The most amusing part is that they'll dip insects in the jelly and take them back to the nest to feed their babies.

Birdcam: Chickadee & Titmouse

 

 

Chickadee at the peanut feeder

 

We bought a peanut feeder in hopes of attracting some different birds. This chickadee seems to like it, but we are hopeful that he'll be joined by some migrating spring birds.

Birdcam photos: Spring birds at the feeder.

Black-capped Chickadee 

Tufted Titmouse 

Red Winged Blackbird

Northern Cardinal 

Mourning Dove

House Finches courtship feeding

We went to Connecticut for Easter but left the birdcam on to see who was at the bird feeder. We had observed the courtship feeding in cardinals, but this is the first time we noticed it in house finches.

Winter birds: Tufted Titmouse and Chickadee

Tufted Titmouse


Chickadee

The ice and snow has changed the feeding pattern a bit. A chickadee came to the deck to eat and we've seen chickadees, nuthatches, wrens as well as the usual woodpeckers at the suet feeders.

Backyard Birds

Tufted Titmouse

Carolina Wren blowing in the wind

Blue Jay

Junco

House Finch

Tufted Titmouse with a peanut

Northern Cardinal in the snow

Chickadee

Young Chickadee

 

 

On our walk this morning, we were looking for some Northern Flickers which we haven't seen many of lately. Instead we saw lots of small birds darting about a tree, and it turned out to be a family of chickadees. We saw some parents feeding young. We think the Chickadee in the photos is a young one because it wasn't very good at flying.

We are still waiting to get a glimpse of the Oriole babies. We can hear them when the mother comes by to feed but they are 40 feet up and not showing themselves.

Chickadee & Goldfich

 

 

We want spring to come as much as these birds do.

Today at the feeder

We noticed quite a bit of bird activity this morning. Juncos arrived, followed by a brown creeper. Then all of our friends came to the feeder. The first four photos were taken through the window. Then, Mike, the geek, set up the tripod and the infrared remote for the camera and captured the red-bellied woodpecker (love his hair) and the rest of the gang.