Sunday, December 5, 2010

Backyard birds

With a foot of snow on the gound, the songbirds left around my yard is always looking for food.  Today with the warmer weather, they were still emptying my feeders.

Black-capped chickadees are very numberous.  Here one leaves its perch to attack the sunflower seeds.


The niger seed sack was a battleground for the American Goldfinch.


Here a Housefinch tries to crack a captured sunflower seed.


Just another wild day in Idaho.

16 comments:

Sallie (FullTime-Life) said...

Beautiful pictures. Just about the only thing I miss about our stick house is the backyard birds and the bird feeders on our deck. We had really good luck with a combination of niger seed and black oil sunflower. Got every kind of bird in the area I think!

Some RVers put up bird feeders when they stop, but I am too lazy to keep them cleaned and stored when we're traveling.

Cloudia said...

glorious captures!




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Gaelyn said...

Great shots of your feathered friends.

Janie said...

Great captures, especially the crisp photo of the chicadee's wings.

Jo said...

Beautiful captures, Bill. I keep scrolling back to the first one. Amanzing. Glad the birds have you to feed them during the harsh winter months. Have a great week, greetings from Jo (South Africa)

Dan Huber said...

wonderful shots - winter feeder action is always great to observe.

dan

holdingmoments said...

Love that Housefinch. A real beauty.

Pearl said...

Oh, I do love the winter birdies!

:-)

Pearl

Phil Slade said...

Nice shot of the Goldfinches Bill. Seems they like the nyjer, just like our European Goldfinch too.

FAB said...

Great to see your visitors are enjoying the feeders as much as they are over here. FAB.

Mary Howell Cromer said...

Wonderful and you said you had hardly any colourful songbirds in winter, these are beautiful. Love the top image, great shot~

Monts said...

Superb images Bill, everything seems to be fighting for the meagre food supplies during these cold times.

troutbirder said...

Very nice Bill. I tried one of those niger sacks and the finches really like it.

Dagmar said...

Hi Bill love how you captured this flying creature. And yea chickadees are funny to watch.
Have a fun day Dagmar

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