What are you doing out there lady?
We’ve been enjoying the orioles again this spring, as well as lots of other pretty birds.
Tonight I took a chair out into the yard, trying to get a shot of the orioles glowing in the evening sun. Boy they are suspicious birds.
Do I have jelly on my beak?
Though I was sitting far away from the feeder, and using my long lens, they were still skittish. Especially when this face appeared in the window only inches away from their feeder.
Hey mama! What are you ….ooops…sorry mama!
Even with the distraction the male and female oriole each showed up for a few fleeting moments.
You can’t see me if I hide behind this pole. Can you?
The goldfinches, on the other hand, are much less finicky about paparazzo like me.
On the lookout. The food lady needs to fill the thistle feeder.
Earlier today we had a visitor who had a hankering for jelly. He’s been here before, and has, in fact, enthusiastically chewed the feeder trying to get the last drop.
Hey lady! It’s not my fault if you don’t have a squirrel baffle on this feeder pole!
And yesterday Mr. Grosbeak dropped by. He’s not shy at all, and told me right away that I had inadvertently allowed the safflower seed level to drop to an unacceptable level.
This is unacceptable lady! You are a slacker!
I fixed that immediately. Sorry sir.
So hard to keep peace among the youngsters.
June 15, 2017 at 9:05 pm
Your photo comments are hilarious! Hi Katie!
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June 15, 2017 at 9:16 pm
Hi Lois!
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June 15, 2017 at 9:37 pm
Our Orioles are very suspicious too. They don’t like when I sit on the front deck, several feet away but within sight of the feeders. My poor birds have had a hard time with their food person this year.
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June 15, 2017 at 9:56 pm
My birds just get insistent. We try to attend to them right away to avoid a protest that makes the media.
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June 15, 2017 at 10:15 pm
You could always call it fake news.
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June 16, 2017 at 5:57 am
I love the picture of Katie behind the glass!
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June 16, 2017 at 10:41 am
I did too. Sort of a frame for that cute little face. She can be such a goofball.
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June 16, 2017 at 8:45 am
You have some beautiful birds to watch. We haven’t seen Goldfinches this year, don’t know why. Our Baltimore couple have already kicked the kids out of the nest. They spend a lot of time down at the jelly dish!
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June 16, 2017 at 10:37 am
Our Orioles must have done that too because they’re at the feeder all the time now…just in the past week. We had them early spring and then not so much while they were busy nesting. I guess they’re retired now! We haven’t seen as many goldfinches as normal either. I wonder what’s up?
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June 16, 2017 at 10:36 am
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a black squirrel! You’ve got such interesting critters around your place, Dawn — and I really like the princess in the window!
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June 16, 2017 at 10:42 am
This one isn’t even one of the normal black squirrels, sort of a hybrid I think. I hadn’t seen it before this week. We never had black squirrels at all my entire life until about 2 years ago. They were always way way up north. I guess they’ve moved in now though.
The princess likes all the windows out the back. She can keep track of her country.
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June 17, 2017 at 4:17 pm
Your visitors are beautiful.
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June 17, 2017 at 5:14 pm
Yes they sure are!
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