Ah, Carolina wrens, they're cute and they sure do find interesting places to nest.

Lynn, they sure look close but I'm not as good as you at ID's! We need help.. @BigBill where are you? We need you here.

Rose, love all the snow birds.

Too cold to leave the house today, so I'm spending my time watching the birds at our feeders.
A few more
Male House Finch

Male Cardinal

Red Bellied Woodpecker

You know it's cold when you see them puffed up like this guy!

plantladylin said:
I cropped and lightened these but can't remember which bird it is; a small Warbler type, flitting high in the oak trees.

The beak made me think vireo. What about Blue-headed Vireo?

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/...

Really neat pics today!

Morgan, Thank you so much ... the Blue-headed Vireo sure looks like a match!! I didn't even know they were found in Florida, it's a first sighting for me!

https://www.audubon.org/field-...

They're on the birding lists for spring and fall migration here, but I've never seen one myself. Hopefully someday. I've always thought they were quite pretty birds.

Thanks for the acorns! I hope they're still going to do some more raffles here so I can spend them on that. The past few days I've been spending some time going through my older photos to add more of them to the plant database whilst listening to some gardening podcasts. So I'm getting some acorns to hopefully spend that way also... although that's not my main motivation. I just think, "what else am I gonna do with all of these?" It's a good activity to do during miserable winter weather. Especially after I spent the morning trying to clear several inches of heavy icy slush from the driveway.

Clearing snow and ice isn't something I can imagine doing, even if I was young! We're still in shorts, tee shirts and flip flops here in my area, with temps in the upper 70's and low to mid 80's. At least the humidity hasn't been bad at all the past week or so. A front did make it's way south yesterday so today it was very breezy but a very pleasant 76º. Another front is supposed to come through tomorrow, with rain showers likely but temps are still supposed to be mid 70's tomorrow and then drop for Monday and Tuesday with temperatures those days predicted for upper 60's during the day and mid 40's to around 50 at night. I wish it could stay like that year round!

Another cold day, so more pictures from my dining room window!

A Downey and a Hairy on the same feeder! Not something I see very often.

Blue Jay

Northern Flicker

One of my two puppies scaring of my birds!

I love the suet feeder pic. Double the fun!

Three on the wing from today:

I'm just loving all these wonderful bird shots, and the doggie too.

I've been also enjoying the evenings in my garden, the birds and squirrels have been devouring the bird seed.


This big fat hawk was way up in my Turkey oak looking down on me, this is the best pic I could get of it.


Cardinal


Red bellied woodpecker - you gotta look close to see it.

Rose, Love the pic's, especially the Downy & Hairy WP's together in the same shot! Cute pup too!

Asa, wonderful shots as always, I especially love seeing birds in flight!! That Seagull looks like our resident Ring-billed Gulls.

Sherri, I love the shot of the Hawk looking down at you! The short tail feathers makes me think it might be a juvenile. Beautiful Cardinal shot too and I clearly see that Red-bellied WP!

These are from yesterday afternoon; a Male Red-bellied Woodpecker:

Great kiskadee (Pitangus sulphuratus). In Spanish: Benteveo

Doves...

Every one, great pics! Keep up the good work!

Cici, that Great Kiskadee is a new one I'd never heard of so I had to google and read about it. Apparently it does reach areas of the southern part of Texas here in the U.S. It really is a pretty bird and it has neat sounding calls too!

My husband was outside working on the irrigation system and when I went out to ask him a question a few minutes ago, I spotted an Egret in the front yard so I got my camera in hopes of getting a few shots. I stood watching it awhile before it meandered off into a neighbors yard. I got sidetracked and completely forgot what it was that I originally went out to ask my husband.

Great Egret that walking around and looking into different shrubs, likely in search of a lizard to eat:

Lin, that sounds like something I would do.

My usual woodpecker visitors yesterday. Seeing the size of the Red-bellied up close makes me want to get a double suet hanger for them, and makes the Downy look tiny in comparison.

Male Downy:


Female Red-bellied: