Birds in the back yard

[Gunner55]

I put enough in the HB feeder down by the shore to make it ~ 2/3 full on Sunday & it was already empty yday. We have 1 up here between the outhouse and the generator too & it looks like they haven't hardly touched that 1 since I put some in it just before we went back to Ia.

[Jerkbiat]

Still have orioles up here yet too.

[glenn57]

The hummingbirds are going crazy here.

[Dotch]

Saw an immature Baltimore male on the nectar feeder when I was seated in the oval office. Still jelly in the feeder tho. Have a male cardinal singing his lungs out every morning. Lotsa wrens chiming in.

[roony]

Last night while grilling we heard a birdcall from the other side of the windbreak. Turns out it was the Sandhill Cranes.

[Gunner55]

Had to fill the HB feeder again this morning.

[Dotch]

Took them a while but 4 Baltimore orioles were back over lunchtime. They had cleaned up the remaining jelly and were demanding more. Who am I to argue? 

[glenn57]

I cleaned and set these up a little over 24 hours ago. There's gotta be 50 of these wasps in it already.

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[glenn57]

These son of breeches!

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[Gunner55]

Had a nest of theirs under the lift canopy a couple days ago, I nuked it the next day.

[glenn57]

  it really helps keeping them away from the hummingbird feeders. 

[Gunner55]

  Well, I didn't get 'em all as they were back when I came in this AM. I was afraid of that, so the can of spray never left the boat. Might wait 'til they're all sleepin again though.

[LPS]

Those darn wasps find ours every year too. 

[Gunner55]

Nuked 'em on the way out & when I came in again today. What was left of the nest fell in the lake the last time.

[LPS]

Not exactly a bird thing but it involves the bird feeder.  I mentioned about a month ago that a squirrel without a tail was in the feeder.  We don't know if Cooper pulled it off or some other critter.  Mayhaps a fisher.  We have seen them in our trees.  But we never found the tail so who knows.  Well we have never seen that squirrel again.  Life must have been pretty hard for him without a tail for balance. 

[mike89]

yup no tail suks!!!   

[LPS]

 

[glenn57]

yup no tail suks!!!   

sheez....mind is always in the gutter!!!!!!!!

[Dotch]

There's that seks thing again...

Saw a fully colored Baltimore oriole yesterday hanging around the jelly feeder so reloaded it this a.m. Had to dump the water & jelly mixture out of it 1st. Need to use up the rest of the cheap jelly so I'm not tempted to use it when I run out of the good stuff. Should clean and refill the hummingbird feeders soon. I see the 4 o'clocks are starting to flower so they have lots of alternatives. They really like the cannas that are in full bloom.

[mike89]

yup no tail suks!!!   

sheez....mind is always in the gutter!!!!!!!!

just saved you from saying it is all!!!   

[glenn57]

yup no tail suks!!!   

sheez....mind is always in the gutter!!!!!!!!

just saved you from saying it is all!!!   

[tangle tooth]

Here's an oddity, I think.
Wife and daughter are canning peaches today. They had some of the syrup left over and decided to dilute the syrup and put it on the hummingbird feeder. Hummingbirds and orioles are all over it.

[LPS]

One my favorite things was when my Grandma got my mom and our cousins and they canned peaches.  Hard to beat a jar of canned peaches. 

[Dotch]

Few things better as a kid than home canned pears or peaches with cottage cheese. Gotta start 'em young! 😉

[Gunner55]

One my favorite things was when my Grandma got my mom and our cousins and they canned peaches.  Hard to beat a jar of canned peaches. 

We always did a crate of Colorado's every year when I was in school. Dad loved 'em, especially with a little vanilla ice cream.

[fishwidow]

I used to buy lugs of peaches at Eisenbergs Fruit in St Paul. And canned them for the winter. Really cheap snd good stuff. I also bought boxes of bananas from them. When my youngest daughter was born. I had just bought a 40 lb box of bananas. I spent the next four days visiting my wife snd newborn baby daughter and slicing bananas to dehydrate for banana chips. About three days without much sleep.

[glenn57]

we just got a case/box of peaches from our fruit supplier........was $40.00but man are they good!!!!!!!!!

[deadeye]

I think these will make it. The four hens should be able to keep
them out of trouble.

[glenn57]

Roony  what da hell you do with the wrens! mine packed up and headed out 

Haven't seen them in a week.

[roony]

Weren't me. Wish I could take credit.