The Miraculous Ruby-Throats!
It’s springtime and the Ruby-throated Hummingbirds are returning by the thousands, mostly from Central America. They are zipping through our neighborhood backyards, parks, and forest hedges.
It’s springtime and the Ruby-throated Hummingbirds are returning by the thousands, mostly from Central America. They are zipping through our neighborhood backyards, parks, and forest hedges.
Everyone is missing their summer and autumn birds! Not to worry! The WINTER BIRDS are here! What’s the best food to attract winter birds?
Red-bellied Woodpeckers are strikingly beautiful, and clearly stand out in their crowd. Gotta love the Red-bellies!
Roger Tory Peterson best described the Purple Finch as a “sparrow dipped in raspberry juice.” He couldn’t have been more descriptive.
Attracting wild birds right in your own yard or garden is a great activity year-round, autumn is a great time to support our feathered friends.
In a flower bed, from a eave or gutter to provide shade and a place to perch, close to safety so the hummingbirds can escape predators.
Cleaning a hummingbird feeder properly is essential to ensure safe, nutritious nectar for hungry hummingbirds. Fortunately, it is not difficult to clean a hummingbird feeder.
Even without the male’s bright gold breeding plumage, the Goldfinch is an attractive and entertaining visitor to our feeders. They come in a bunch, and feed on the ground as well as at the feeders.
These 5 species of Chickadees of North America have some overlapping territories and they pretty much cover the continental USA, except for the south-western states. We recognize their “Chick-a-dee-dee-dee” song.
Birding is a fun, low-impact outdoor activity that adults and kids can share together. Here are a few tips I recommend for getting started, keeping it interesting, and being safe, especially in the time of social distancing.