More birds in my backyard!

Yup.. That’s a White-Throated Sparrow.. I’m jealous of all your gold finches.. sniff I haven’t been able to attract many..

I’m going to do away with the large feeder I have and get a few tube feeders like that, figure it’ll do better and last longer.

What kind of feed do you have in them?

-- Planting Daylilies in Kentucky, zone 6b

Yesterday I posted this:

And today I was SOOOOO lucky!!!

and

I will not attempt anymore pictures for a while because I do not want to scare them!

-- Eklectic, Follow my Bliss, South East Ontario 5a

Scott:
At this time of the year, it is the regular finch mix but later on it will be the thistles.

We should see the house finch soon as well as the purple ones. Got great pictures last year!!

-- Eklectic, Follow my Bliss, South East Ontario 5a

awesome photos everyone!

I put niger seed in our “upside down” finch feeder. It lasts longer that way.

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)

Beautiful!

-- Xploreorganics, 5b Canada, LFD 06-20

Beautiful

I love when birds make there home in the garden.

-- Louise Edgwood,Md.

I have tried several types of bird seed. One thing for sure is that once the finch seed gets wet, they wont eat it but they do love niger seed, a tad expensive and once it gets wet from the rain it tends to go moldy and its wasted.

For the past while I have used just sunflower seeds and I have found that almost all the birds eat it, including the finches.

Nice photos

-- Central northish Ontario

Beautiful pics ‘E’. So fortunate to have such a variety. Love the blue of the robins’ eggs. Mother Nature sure is amazing. You take wonderful shots!

-- blooz 5b - You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt. ~author unkown

I only use black oil sunflowers seeds for all the birds. I found out if you use all niger they get fussy and they won’t eat anything else. That corn mix is for doves but I found the stuff in a feeders when it gets wet, horrible stuff. So much starch so it plugs up the feeders and very difficult to clean and will go moldy

The others seeds like niger are too expensive for me

The bird shop here, Birds and Blooms told me niger seed is very sweet and just like candy to them

In fact I think he said it wasn’t even real seed

-- NS Zone 5B 200 KM East of Halifax cheers Bunting------Having a place to go – is a home. Having someone to love – is a family.

As I was walking by the wood shed, I peeked and saw a parent sitting on the side of the nest:

It flew away as I was taking the picture. So I decided to give a try at the nest itself and this is what I got:

At that point both parents were quite upset with me so I left.

-- Eklectic, Follow my Bliss, South East Ontario 5a

awww…fuzzies :)

-- Xploreorganics, 5b Canada, LFD 06-20

aaw isn’t it so …...... pink

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)

And a new generation begins.They’re so ugly that they are cute. (lol)

-- Bon,Hastings,Ont.....zone 5a....Always room for one more

Birth … what an amazing event!!!

-- "A perfect garden is just a garden to be in-perfection. Mornings to work on it and evenings to pause and look at it." Southeast Michigan, Zone 5a/5b

We were away all day yesterday and this morning,as hubby was in the shed he noticed the robin doing a funny dance!
When it flew away, hubby checked in the nest and it is empty!!!

-- Eklectic, Follow my Bliss, South East Ontario 5a

What does that mean “E”? Were they old enough to fly … Did Mom move them herself

-- "A perfect garden is just a garden to be in-perfection. Mornings to work on it and evenings to pause and look at it." Southeast Michigan, Zone 5a/5b

No, GranT,
probably a blue jay or another predator like a squirrel, we haven’t seen anything and the parents are setting up the nest again so…

-- Eklectic, Follow my Bliss, South East Ontario 5a

Oh NO, how sad …

-- "A perfect garden is just a garden to be in-perfection. Mornings to work on it and evenings to pause and look at it." Southeast Michigan, Zone 5a/5b

Lucky for us that the birds just start all over again when something like that happens.Better luck next time Mr. and Mrs. Robin. :(

-- Bon,Hastings,Ont.....zone 5a....Always room for one more

wow, I cannot believe how many finches you have!

and the robin and her babies, awwwwwwwwwwww!

-- Toronto, Ontario

never assume the worst

the Robins here are on their second clutch of babies

-- Central northish Ontario

never assume the worst? don’t know what you mean

second batch of babies, poor birds!

-- Toronto, Ontario