Game Camera

We got a game camera for Christmas and look at some of the things we have in our yard!   

Turkeys

We have a raffle of turkeys that's what some people cal big groups of  turkeys others call  them flocks or gangs or even rafters.Do you have a group of turkeys?

Bird Mania

 This is a Gold finch feeding on a dying bull thistle.

 This is a black capped chicadee what I have noticed is that tufted tit mice and chickadees cannot break through the sunflower seeds so they have to hit the seed with their beaks like woodpeckers.

 A tufted tit mouse about to fly away on the bird feeder

 Two tufted tit mice on the feeder

A royal looking Tufted Tit mouse

Song Birds

 In my yard I got a photo of a Black-Capped Chickadee.To ID this bird look for a black hat and a yellow belly.

 Here is a song sparrow.

Look at the beautiful orange belly!This is a Baltimore Oriole.

Ruby Throated Hummingbirds

 Here is a male Ruby Throated hummingbird.

I finally got a photo of both of these hummingbirds.  The one above is a female Ruby Throated Hummingbird.

HAWK WATCH WEEKEND

This week has been a great hawk watch week.I have seen Red Tailed Hawks everywhere like the one (above) and (below)

Birding in the Everglades

This morning in the everglades I saw a Barred owl.I have never seen a owl in the wild.

Later we saw a juvenile Red Shouldered Hawk perched on a tree overlooking the saw grass.

 Next we saw a great Egret spear a baby water snake (look closely!!)

Finally we saw purple martins at their southern most point in the continental USA-- at the Robert is Here fruitstand.