A Gardeners Forum Forums Gardening Reference Gardening in 2007 Todays Pics from Jane's Birdcam

I'm two freeway exits north of where I was.
The city is called Oceanside ! Argh !

Hi Deborah
I am one of the folks thorny invited over from the stuffy ole' bird forum.

I have a newphew who lives in the Oceanside ares - He got out of the Marines and stayed there.

I hope your new digs gets lots of cool birds!

Why can't that bunny be???

Deborah, My bunny, Two Bean Bags, says, "SHOW ME THE BUNNY!!!"

TWO BEAN BAGS

Good one, Thorny !
Gone, that domestic rabbit is in danger from traffic, dogs, the cold, etc.
And we have coyotes here. If you have coyotes, the last thing you want is a light colored animal.
Also it needs a proper diet, not the grass that the gardeners spray with toxins. I'd like to have it at the vet too, for a check up and vaccinations.
It appears to be plump and healthy though.
Thorny, do rabs need a salt lick? Or is there enough sodium in the rabbit food?
What does your rab eat?

They do have salt and mineral blocks for rabbits but commercial rabbit food has adequate supplies of both. Two Beans LOVES chocolate......of ANY kind. He rares up and puts his front feet on my legs and scratches,flicking his tongue at me for a bite of chocolate (which I ALWAYS have available on my computer desk). The other night I gave hime some DARK chocolate containing Espresso. That was a MISTAKE! He was up all night banging into the walls and roof of his cage and doing his floor "Thumping" thingy and LOUDLY ripping up the newspapers in his cage and thrashing around with them. That caffeine really had him wired!

We have Coyotes here in Tennessee now, too. And for the last five years we've had armadillos!

dont know about a rabbi, but I hear chocolate will kill a dog......

Better check that one out.

We almost killed our dog last summer, some bad milk.....Thought he was a goner.....We feed him 2 exlax and he was getting better each day. He couldn't go to the bathroom till then.

Eek .never again.

Birds won't eat chocolate. Blue jays love sweet stuff. Man, they are nutty cakes, cookies and their favorite cinnamon rolls. But, they won't touch chocolate cake or chocolate chip cookie... They know it's bad for them.

Hi Hi!

Happy Saturday !!!!

Did I already show off this picture?

I love my backyard

jane

nice nice nice...
I love your back yard too .
What is it/

That bird is a Carolina CHickadee, one of the MOST common visitors to bird feeders. I call then the "Teddy Bears" of the bird world. Feisty little devils they are.

Snow!!!!!! The backyard is whacky...
Cardinal in the window!!!!

Jane, snow is the best time of all for bird activity at feeders. Get yor camera ready, get warm clothes and a hot drink and, GET OUT THERE AND PHOTOGRAPH!!!

Oh... Thorny, I had so much fun. It was spiritual and amazing and wow...

The birds act completely different - they were wild, crazy and aggressive. I had juncos on the suet feeder!! One of the brown creepers was on the porch!...Oh my!

I have some pictures - Oh had it only been sunny. I am going to go through them after dinner.

Mostly, I am such a newbie I couldn't click I was too busy picking my jaw up off the ground.

Oh yeah, I finally got to watch a cardinal chow down from the window... which mean almost nose to nose with the big red fellow!

Wow... It was amazing! There had to be 200 birds at once. We hestitate to do it on the first count day... but we believe we had 100 juncos!

The shocker though... Our cardinal count (You must see them at once) was only 8.

All the $$$ is worth it!!!

Let's here it for the ladies
What a day it was! I love snow!

wow thats a great pic jane! i dont know much about birds but i do like to watch em!
we get bunches of [ i dont know if there called blue birds or blue jays] but we get bunches of em!

Sibyl,
Birds are wonderous. Hubby and I, both, and together can watch them all day! We have so much new conversation and shared ideas about how to draw birds to the yard and who they are. It's been a major blessing!

Cool thing sibyl is they will be waiting for you to discover them whenever. They'll be there - years from now. Mom fed them here and I pretty much stayed out of it. Wow and Wow.. now I see...
I'm glad the waited for me

The bird in this picture is female cardinal. Big red's woman. Thanks for taking the time to check her out- and I'm so glad you like her.

Jane

I love that photo........

Get one a littl clearer of her and I can print it for my wall......

Love it .......Big red too.
Thanks for sharing.

dodge

What a great picture!!!

I agree.....


dodge

HLC! i think jane and thorny got me addicted! i keep peekin out my windows to see if i can get a pic of a bird!

Ha ha

We're are all BIRD concious now!!!!!!!
Thanks Jane and Thorn.........

We love what your doing to us.

;o)/\/\/\/\

Here is today's featured bird from Jane's webcam; a Tufted Titmouse. These birds are year-round residents of much of the Eastern U.S. and are VERY COMMON visitores to bird feeders. Males and females of this species are identical so you really can't distinguish which is which. They are ALMOST always found in the company of Chickadees. Their Spingtime mating song is a LOUD, CLEAR bell-like, "PETER, PETER, PETER!" Their call is very Chickadee like and when angry or upset they make a Wren-like, "Pssssht, Pssssht, Pssssht!"

TUFTED TITMOUSE

All this food and no one to share with

was that the female?
cardinal?

ha ha

we love those photos>>>>>>
And we entertain thorn too.

b