re: Birds at your Feeder: 2024

In Texas

Red bellied woodpecker
Downy woodpecker
Blue jay
Cardinals
Red breasted grosbeak
American goldfinch
Hummingbirds
House finch
Mourning doves
Hawks (not on the feeder but eating my birds)
Mockingbird
Brown cow bird
House sparrows
Carolina wren
Titmouse
Chickadee
Yellow rumped warbler
Female painted bunting

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This past week we've gotten migratory birds in Shreveport.

Eastern Wood Pewee
White-eyed Vireo
Great Crested Flycatcher

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All I got. Was in trree behind house.

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Takes about four to make a decent meal.

Some shots from post-Jazz Fest exploring in Jean Lafitte

Mississippi Kite



chubby Barred Owl grooming



Prothonotary Warbler


Blue racer


Ribbon Snake


Marsh bunny


roaming Crawfish


gators

Is that a leucistic or albino ruby throat?

If so, that's pretty cool!

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I have a bunch of birds of south louisiana at my feeder and now a red-tailed hawk that took one of my little birds as a meal on Sunday.

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Hawks will find anywhere birds congregate. I stopped feeding in the Spring and Summer several years back because the hawks started putting so much pressure on them. I still keep the birdbath full, they don't congregate there as much (more just a steady coming and going), and it is an easier escape for them.

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My neighborhood Crows don't play when it comes to Hawks and Owls - they mob them immediately on sight.

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They're the best guardians. They or the Jays always notice them and sound first. The crows and Purple Martins then mob them and run them out of sight. Hawks can't deal with the martins in flight. Martins fly too high and are way too agile. If one lands in a tree the crows will pester the shite out of it until it leaves.

So far this year I haven't had to put up decoys to distract the crows from the purple martins. Hope it stays that way because hawks have been a problem for the past three years.

Mockingbird nest that got knocked out of a tree in the bad weather :/



Sora



Male ruby throated hummingbird...it light was bad, so the colors aren't very vivid...