A Downy Woodpecker looks for a tidbit at the shelled sunflower feeder.
Tag: feeding birds
Blue Jay.
I feed songbirds. A side effect is that seeds are scattered throughout the yard, so sunflowers spring up all over. We let them grow, flower, and go to seed.
Today a gang of eight Blue Jays descended on the sunflowers. I was able to photograph this one from the kitchen.
One of the many.
One of the many sunflowers on our property.
We feed the birds, which means that they and the squirrels deposit sunflower seeds throughout the yard. The seeds sprout. Sunflowers grow. Seed eating birds glean the flower heads. The seeds they miss fall to the ground. The cycle renews, year after year.
Feeding birds.
A male House Finch visits our sunflower feeder. I keep at least one feeder up year round. With other food sources so plentiful at this time of year I don’t keep it constantly filled. I like to have them visit because I do enjoy hearing their song.
At the feeder
A male American Goldfinch.
Manages
Though the bird feeders’ perch is a little undersized for it, this male Common Grackle manages just fine.
A gaggle of goldfinches . . .
. . . and a Pine Siskin.
Perches
A Downy Woodpecker perches on the sunflower feeder before hitching down and helping itself to some food.
Up? down?
They seem to be the same to the White-breasted Nuthatch.
A fine figure
This male House Sparrow cut a fine figure as it paused while hopping around on a cedar bush just outside my workplace.
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