H.J. Ruiz – Avian101 – Page 769 – "My Backyard Visitors" – All about birds

Where are They?

The past few days I haven’t seen the Northern Mockingbirds that usually fly round my backyard. I just wonder, are they are moving to a new location?.

One thing I know is that I have a neighbor that moved in a few months ago (I haven’t met them yet) about three houses from me, they’ve installed several bird feeders and a few little bird houses. My wife says that they are always looking at my backyard and the birds coming and going to it. I can only guess that they might like the same kind of traffic in their backyard. I don’t care, really! I wish more people to get involved into caring for birds!

I’m sure that the Northern Mockingbirds will be back, they’ve been a fixture in my backyard.

“Otherwise who’s going to poop on my mailbox?”

(Does it happen to you too?) That’s how I get to know if they’re around or not.

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Panoramic View of Birds

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Juvenile Eastern Towhee — Click on image to see enlargement

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Molting Update

Slowly but surely I’m starting to see the wonderful improvements of bird’s plumages as per seasonal molting.

Today’s post has a variety of photos of some Northern Cardinals looking very nice and regardless of not having completed their process of renewing all feathers.

I picked the cardinal males for now in order to show you what they look like at this time. Later I will be posting photos of both male and females when they end their molting.

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Some of Today’s Captures

Of the sudden we’re having a sunny day but high in humidity. There’s at least a chance to shoot some pictures. The amount of birds coming to the feeders has dropped considerably. The Mourning Doves are still here getting fatter…hey! that must be the reason for having seen the Cooper’s Hawk back again!

These doves are easy to catch because they don’t fly away as soon as the other birds cry the enemy alarm, instead they just stay put and do not move at all until they blink and that the end!