Post your yard and pond visitors

[GBBUDD]

Not many visitors this week as the leaves have been falling and with the large maples that I have that means the lea blower has been almost non stop. but we did get a couple visitors to the falls during a break.

 

[RobAmy]

Yesterday this woodpecker was enjoying the sun for a change

Woodpecker in morning light by A & R Photography, on Flickr

 

[Stephen T.]

Yesterday, it seems the small birds were very active. I spent about 1/2 hour out by the pond/stream and saw 4 white breasted nuthatches at once, a flock of cedar waxwings, several robins, some goldfinches, lots of juncos, our usual scrub jays, a downy woodpecker and a little gray wren (I think).

I've never seen that many nuthatches at once, they were down drinking and bathing. Unfortunately, from my blind, they were just out of sight most the time.

I put up a 2nd dead tree and the flock of cedar waxwings decorated both of them! There must have been 25-30, split between them. They were spending a lot of time gorging on crab apples and choke cherries around the yard.

 

[j.w]

So many beautiful bird photo's but I am waiting for one of a Partridge in a Pear tree. I'm sure one of you can come up w/that one right? Would be nice to have it by the 1st day of Christmas

 

[addy1]

I put up a 2nd dead tree

We had one huge maple, two peach trees die this year. I left them all standing for the birds. The dead trees also make great bird house communities.

 

[GBBUDD]

We had one huge maple, two peach trees die this year. I left them all standing for the birds. The dead trees also make great bird house communities.

Careful they also make great widow makers.

 

[j.w]

We have a diseased Weeping Willow tree. Loaded w/holes in the trunk and leaves turn brown, branches fall off dead. Getting large, might have to eventually chop it down or it will chop us down!

 

[RobAmy]

We had one huge maple, two peach trees die this year. I left them all standing for the birds. The dead trees also make great bird house communities.

So true, we need the dead trees for sure to help the future generations of many bird, bug species and mammal species.

 

[RobAmy]

White Crowned Sparrow in the stream by A & R Photography, on Flickr

 

[Stephen T.]

In the winter, we get a lot of quail in the front yard, such comical birds! They run across the snow, like Charlie Chaplin's funny walk. The only other birds that show up in such large numbers are yellow headed blackbirds and evening grosbeaks. I only got about half of them in the picture.

 

[Tara]

@Stephen T. That photo of the quail looks like a painting, a picture like that would make a great jigsaw puzzle.

 

[Stephen T.]

Dashing through the snow (actually, this spotted towhee is digging in the snow for scattered seeds).

 

[Somethin' Fishy]

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In the winter, we get a lot of quail in the front yard, such comical birds! They run across the snow, like Charlie Chaplin's funny walk. The only other birds that show up in such large numbers are yellow headed blackbirds and evening grosbeaks. I only got about half of them in the picture.

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Love these! You're so lucky to have them. I finally got to see our very first ones on our California trip this past Spring. Once we were familiar with their call, they were easy to spot. Acorn woodpeckers too...

Thanks for sharing!

 

[Stephen T.]

We're supposed to have mountain quail here, along with the California quail, but I have yet to see one. I keep hoping.

 

[RobAmy]

@Stephen T. Awesome quail and love the angle on the towee