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Here are a couple of my back yard birdies...

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I am still trying to get my hummingbird to hover long enough to get a pic of him...

Ahhhh! You have a Brown Thrasher and a Northern Cardinal Male. It's weird to see them in sand.

Awww, dust bath time! Looks like a thrush. I have a hard time discerning thrushes and thrashers tho' and I'm not sure which are more common to NC. Is your soil very sandy in those pics? Mr Cardinal is sooooo pretty isn't he?

You know whats coming.... Can I use the pics on my site?
I really have to go there and add more today.

Great pics Tonya!!

I think that's a Brown Thrasher, Wrennie. I don't think they Southeast U.S. has any thrushes this time of year. We have the Hermit Thrush in the Winter. Tonya is on the atlantic Coast of North Carolina. I had a Brown Thrasher at my feeders just this morning here in Tennessee.

I must have been typing as you were posting Thorny. i do get them confused and didnt have a book nearby to look in. I had a wood thrush(I'm prett sure) once ruffling up leaf litter at the edge of my yard looking for dinner. Never saw one again, or ant thrashers.

Wrennie- you may use any of my pics you see...always!

i've had that tonya. my male feeds the female. if i hadn't seen it with my own eyes...

Thank you sweetie!

The Cardinals were performing a mating ritual. the male offers the female a seed and when she accepts it, he feeds it to her and they are 'pinned'(?) 'engaged'(?) 'hitched' (?)
The female wasnt wagging her tail or fluttering her wings, right? Only 'cause that would be a jeuveniles way of still asking to be fed. If she put her head back a bit and he fed her from above (a dominant position) woo-hoo we have a wedding!

I have seen that Cardinal behavior myself. I even had a female "come on" to me once she flew down to the feeder, turned her back to me, raised her tail, Looked back over her shoulder at me, and in her most seductive Cardinal voice said, "CHIRP! "

Nat, you are a mess....(of fun!)

Dianna

She knew where her seeds were coming from..... you stud you!

The next day a male Northern Cardinal showed up at my feeders chirping furiously. I have studied bird communication for years and although I am not too fluent in understanding Cardinal, I could under stand the chirps that said something about, "Pecking/Kicking", my, "Vent/Cloaca". I guess I had an infuriated beau or hubby on my hands.

CHIRP!

Too funny, thorny!

Cool! Now if I can find the nest, maybe I can see some babies!

I don't know what this is .. It was dark gray with red on the under side of its tail? Anyone know what this different looking bird is ??
Ohh and it is very sleek and a bit smaller than a robin

that is a catbird

Really never heard of one.. It was a pretty one though! I am hoping to get some better pics of it!

spring, Gray Catbirds are CLOSE relatives of Northern Mockingbirds and Brown Thrashers. All three species are Mimics, meaning they love to imitate sounds they hear. Northern Mockingbirds repeat phrases they sing over and over; Brown Thrashers have a more nasal quality to their song and repeat each phrase TWICE; Gray Catbirds sing each phrase only ONCE with frequent, catlike calls of. "MEW!" mixed in with their song, hence giving them the name, Catbird. I have heard Mockingbirds imitate this Mew call also. I have all three species in my yard but I have lived here for four years and did not get a Catbird until this year. My Catbird usually shows up in a large mulberry tree at dusk.

This guy was a very happy camper at mom's this weekend!
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And this little guy as well...
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Is that top picure a gold finch on a chickory plant Tonya?

I Bought that SAME hummingbird feeder at Big Lots this spring but it fell apart on me.

Cool pictures Tonya! That's one of my fav. parts of summer, being able to sit outside and watch all the birdies.

I've had a big influx of Pigeons lately.....and I never used to see any at all.

Sure is Thorny....You are good! After posting it, I realized that the pic wasn't that great!

I almost got a pic of my little hummer tonight...I did get to look at it closer and it has a red neck. It should fit right in here!

Looking at your location , you have a male Ruby-Throated Hummingbird. You're lucky! A lot of the males have already left to migrate back to South America.

He certainly is pretty! I'll try to get a pic today!