Even in the summer they are really skittish.
Great pictures! I also enjoy watching the birds at my feeders, getting kinda expensive though, took me awhile but finally found me a old hand crank corn sheller and feed the squirrels with the corn that I pickup out of the fields when the harvest is done!!
Yesterday every song bird just vanished in mere seconds, I looked at the dried flowers in the pollinating garden and the little chickadees were hiding just like they were frozen. Few minutes later they were all at the feeder again.
You certainly spoil them with mealworms.
I always think of picking up the cobs while out detecting, then forget about it usually. I end up buying 50lb bags of cracked corn for them. Though it does get expensive when the migration happens I can go through $8.00 a day in feed easily, filling the feeders twice a day.
There are a few more species that I didn't get a photo of yesterday. The best day was a few years back when I counted 14 species in one day coming to the feeders.
Mealworms are about all they will eat since they aren't a typical seed eating bird. If real hungry they will eat the hulled sunflower seeds and if really bad weather suet. They really are spoiled at my house. They come in for their last meal at about 4:30 pm then they fly about 75 feet away from the feeder to the roosting box to spend a cold night. You might say they have it made but i enjoy watching them.
Love the wood peckers haven't seen any Flicker's do have a red headed one.
I have been trying to get a photo of the Hairy Woodpecker this winter-comes-grabs-takes off all in a few seconds.
Yes, that’s the red-bellied woodpecker. Ours even try drinking from the hummingbird feeders in the late spring. 😆
That is a nice photo!
