Friday, June 19, 2020

Bunny's Birds

We have been in the process of re-modeling the room that I craft in so I haven't created for a few weeks. They got it wrapped up today. Yay! Gone is the 1984 carpet. That was the last room in the house that had carpet. Gone is the popcorn ceiling. Goodbye louvered doors that were a pain to keep clean. I still have one set left in the house. All of the old mis-matched tables and storage will go back in until a later date. I need a new craft desk and table. 

I haven't been around much to visit your blogs but  I will when I get everything put back in order. I'm ready to start creating again. 

For your viewing pleasure I thought I'd share some pictures of some of the birds we get in our yard. We are so fortunate to get such a beautiful variety. We live close to the ocean and we have just a little bit of wooded area across the street from us. We have a huge oak tree in the back yard. Our birds are somewhat spoiled. We make them homemade suet that doesn't melt in the Florida heat. 


 Barred Owl 



Osprey. He is always across the street from us while it's lunch time.  Notice that he has his fresh catch with him. (Fish)



Pileated Woodpecker



Red Bellied Woodpecker


Hairy Woodpecker

 Blue Jay
 Baltimore Oriole - Female

Baltimore Oriole - Male

 American Robin


Not a clue but it has some great markings

 Painted Bunting - we haven't seen him in years and the picture didn't turn out well at all. We saw him only once. Disappointed.

 One Bluebird and two sweet Wrens

 Bluebird checking out the nesting box
We purchased a real bluebird box for them a few months ago. 
The Bluebird peeking out
Red Shoulder Hawk
Red Shoulder Hawk in flight-look at the beautiful markings
Red Shoulder Hawk with a snack - lizard

I'm missing pictures of the cardinals, chickadees, titmouse, yellow-bellied sap sucker and the downy woodpecker. Those are the ones I can think of. Some of the birds are seasonal. The Baltimore Orioles normally arrive in October and leave in late February. They love to eat oranges that are filled with grape jelly. The Robins arrive in January and they come in huge flocks. They are noisy but fun to watch and only stay a few weeks. The Painted Bunting arrives in spring and we only got to see him one time this year. The barred owl stayed in our oak tree for about 3 hours. That was a first for us this year. The rest are here year round. Most of these birds love dried meal worms, black oil sunflower seed and homemade suet. They love live worms but we don't spoil them that much. Too expensive. Once in a while we get the Cedar Wax Wings. It's been quite a few years since I've seen them. My husband has taken most of the pictures. He does a great job.  Enjoy, y'all. 



10 comments:

  1. WOW you are one lucky lady to have all these amazing birds in your garden, the colours of them all are so stunning, I feed the birds too love to see them visit our garden but them birds make our birds look so drab lol. Thank you for sharing these gorgeous photos and look forward to seeing more..
    Babs x

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  2. Amazing variety of birds Bunny, fabulous blues! I wish we had that amount here x

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  3. WOW Bunny! How wonderful to see all these beautiful birds on your doorstep (the owl is my absolute favourite - I love Owls!)
    Gorgeous pics too - one very talented photographer you have there! x

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  4. Omg where on earth do you live Bunny, I'm coming to stay for a while. Those photos are AMAZING!! You are one lucky lady. Your card is also very gorgeous!

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  5. WOW, what great pictures! You have some huge birds visiting you. We had a heron again this year. We have a fish pond so he was not a welcomed visitor. We live close to the Niagara River which flows to Niagara Falls so we do see a lot of them. On went the net over the pond, not as much fun as an open pond, but much safer for our fish. We have had the pond for 12 years now and they only started coming for the last three years, but they can clean a pond out in short order. And with bright orange goldfish, they can see them really good. Thanjks for sharing the pictures, loved the owl and was so surprised when it opened up the picture.

    Hugs
    Sue

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  6. These pictures are gorgeous! Thanks for sharing!

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  7. What fabulous photos Bunny, and such a variety of birds. My fave has to be that hawk lifting off and showing all his wonderful markings.

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  8. Hi Bunny am so jealous of your amazing pics what aa wonderful variety & so colourful, you really are lucky. We do have some pretty birds visit our garden and do look after them, lots of magpies this year raiding nests. We used to have a large kio pond which brought herons looking for fish which we netted in summer, rather a chore as it was kidney shape 4ft deep 20ft by 11ft wide..we filled it in when Alison was pregnant with Mia 7yrs ago and was getting expensive to heat & cover in winter. I must visit your blog more take care luv mousey sister Christine xxxxxx

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  9. Wow, great photos, Bunny! We have some of those birds here, but the only ones we see regularly are blue jays, robins, sparrows, and chickadees. There is a pileated woodpecker in the neighbourhood so we see him occasionally, although we can hear him all the time. Good for you for getting your room renovated - it must be a pleasure to craft there now!

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  10. WOW!! Beautiful birds.

    greetings Marga

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