Backyard Birds Spotted This Week

Even though I did go on a brief nature hike Thursday morning, I’m going to just share the backyard birds I spotted this week. The ones we saw Thursday didn’t cooperate well for photos but my backyard birds like to at least give me a chance for a decent photo.

Downy woodpecker

The downy woodpeckers seem to always be happy to cooperate. They don’t mind us at all.

House Finches

Another one of our backyard friends that don’t mind us at all are the resident house finches. I often hear them calling to each other as I’m filling the feeders. Usually, they’ll sit on the wire, fence, or trees waiting on me to finish.

Cardinals

I tend to see more cardinals in late fall and during the winter. The summer ones are a bit shy.

Hummingbirds

While I don’t have a huge crowd of hummingbirds that visit, each summer one or two do decide our feeder is for them. They don’t mind us too much either as long as we stay on the deck. I was watching this one yesterday with the camera and it seemed as if he turned so I could be sure to get his “good side.”

Not a bird

Along with our backyard birds, we get a variety of other creatures. Most are nocturnal coming to clean up the spillage at night or creeping by in passing: possums, skunks, raccoons (if we don’t keep our trash locked down, they feast on the roof leaving quite the mess!). However, the daytime creature who likes to share the bird feed is of course, the squirrel.

Usually, they annoy me to no end. However, last week was so hot (heat indexes of 106, a bit higher than normal for these parts) that I wasn’t paying a lot of attention to outside. Did look out the backdoor to spot this poor guy just lounging on the fence while waiting for his pal to finish a turn over at the suet feeder.

Other Birds Spotted This Week

We did see another set of indigo buntings on our Thursday morning nature hike but sadly, they were too far away for decent pictures. Other than a few turkey vultures and a hawk of some sort, that’s all we saw. Too hot perhaps.

Around here, in addition to the ones pictured, I’ve also seen a pair of nuthatches, the chickadees, sparrows, doves, the red-bellied woodpeckers, heard the bluejays (and our neighbor’s chickens and rooster-story for another day), and both heard and seen the Carolina wren.

What birds have you spotted this week?

(Linking up with the Bird Depot hosted by Anni at I’d Rather B Birdin’)