Beautiful, Deb. Sounds like a perfect nickname for him. Whatever works,huh!?!?!

Deb, that is so funny, sounds like a clown bird and it makes me wonder what the other birds think when they see the Grosbeak acting in that manner!

Here's a few shots I got through the window a little while ago. The Cardinal looks to have a little snail in it's beak. Every so often I've been finding those little snails on plants lately so if it is a snail I'm so thankful if the birds are eating them! :greengrin:

Blue Jay ................................................... Northern Cardinal .................................. Northern Mockingbird

A few more from this afternoon ... we had some thunderstorms and rain but the birds were still actively feeding, some of them were soaking wet!

Blue Jay


Brown Thrasher


Grackles


Mourning Doves


Northern Cardinals


Downy Woodpeckers, male and female


Red-bellied Woodpeckers, male and female


Red-winged Blackbird, female

Great photos Lin as usual. Aren't those Brown Thrashers handsome birds? I have a pair nesting in a weeping Cherry tree in the front yard.

I just lucked out with these doves. I was trying to get a pic through the window when one was on the ground under the feeder, but they spotted me and flew up into a tree. So I took the picture anyway! Possibly Inca Doves.

Linda: Lovely Doves! I've never heard of Inca Doves but after googling and comparing pictures it sure looks like those in your photo.

I just noticed that when I open a photo, all the rest of the photos posted to this thread are all together and one can just scroll through them. What a treat that was for my eyes. Does anyone know if it is possible to view them as a slide show?

The House wrens are building their nest in the small house in the daylily bed up in the backyard. Usually they choose the slotbox house in the front yard but I guess not this year.

Deb @Bonehead I don't know of any way you can view them as a slideshow. To me, they are in slideshow form so I'm not really sure what you're asking. When you open 1 photo here, then as you said, you can keep clicking on the forward arrow & just go one after another.

I was thinking it would be nice if there was a button to have the program automatically scroll through the photos without need to click. Lazy? Yeah... But, there are a lot of threads that I would just pull over to my secondary screen, have it roll through beautiful pictures of flowers or birds with about a 10 second pace, while I'm doing more mundane junk on my main screen.

Ah, I see. That would be rather cool. I don't have a second screen but some do & even with just one screen, it might be nice to sit here while I do other stuff & just have a slide show of plants, birds, or butterflies. Why don't you bring it up in the site talk forum Deb?

Good idea, although I think I'll give Dave a bit of a breather - he spent the last couple days immersed in server issues and likely wants to unwind from that -- although I don't think he ever really stops near as I can tell.

A few of my backyard regulars today ...

Mourning Doves


Northern Cardinal, female and ...................................... Pigeon


And, the ever present Red-bellied Woodpeckers

A pair of Doves

Oh Dave, that's such a pretty picture! I love Doves and those two look so peaceful.

Thanks Lin.

Another cloudy day at my house, so I'll just enjoy all of your pictures. The little cardinal in the center picture from yesterday looks like it got a good soaking!

All heartwarming photos! Thanks for sharing.

Rose1656 said:Another cloudy day at my house, so I'll just enjoy all of your pictures. The little cardinal in the center picture from yesterday looks like it got a good soaking!

And I would say that's this year's baby.