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LakeArenal

(28,729 posts)
Thu May 9, 2019, 07:44 PM May 2019

Sitting here watching the news and looking out the window

Please share the view.

In this second I see one blue jay, two orioles and six rose breasted grosbeaks.

Also if you look closely, just below the left railing, there are four turkeys.



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Sitting here watching the news and looking out the window (Original Post) LakeArenal May 2019 OP
Wow, quite the view you have there.♥ dewsgirl May 2019 #1
Wow! dhol82 May 2019 #2
Regular zoo over there. Chin music May 2019 #3
Yep. Missed it. LakeArenal May 2019 #5
CanNOT believe I got that....hahahaha Chin music May 2019 #6
They can pick up a peanut in the shell LakeArenal May 2019 #7
Gila Woodpecker here in Tucson. Ptah May 2019 #4
Rosebreasted grosbeaks volstork May 2019 #8
I don't. Free lunch for everybody. LakeArenal May 2019 #23
My kitties MFM008 May 2019 #9
Our boy just left last month... LakeArenal May 2019 #24
Truly sorry DonaldsRump May 2019 #25
Thanks. Good boy. Ace. 13 years old. LakeArenal May 2019 #26
Ace is in heaven waiting to meet his folks DonaldsRump May 2019 #31
The woods are filling in also I see. Snowed here in CO today JDC May 2019 #10
Western tanagers arrived near Taos this morning Ponietz May 2019 #11
Wildlife observation post! 2naSalit May 2019 #12
Wonderful spring scene. I saw two cardinals and a blue jay sweep by my back porch today. trickyguy May 2019 #13
In this moment, all we have Heartstrings May 2019 #14
Ditto, ditto, ditto, a kennedy May 2019 #15
And great friends❣️ LakeArenal May 2019 #17
Your home is being attacked by dinosaurs! tclambert May 2019 #16
Ware seed eating dinosaurs! burrowowl May 2019 #19
A beautiful view wendyb-NC May 2019 #18
It's been a Finch Fest at my house! Trailrider1951 May 2019 #20
Love your view! pazzyanne May 2019 #21
🥰 LakeArenal May 2019 #22
Fantastic, Lucky You!!! Fla Dem May 2019 #27
Screw the news! Blue Owl May 2019 #28
I do have to look away from the news 50% of the time! LakeArenal May 2019 #29
All I got today are a soggy squirrel and squishy chickadees jpak May 2019 #30
birds in our side yard have nestlings onethatcares May 2019 #32

volstork

(5,394 posts)
8. Rosebreasted grosbeaks
Thu May 9, 2019, 09:12 PM
May 2019

are visiting me for the first time this year!

BTW-- how do you keep the squirrels away?

Ponietz

(2,904 posts)
11. Western tanagers arrived near Taos this morning
Thu May 9, 2019, 09:30 PM
May 2019

We are also hosting black headed grosbeaks, lazuli buntings, yellow warblers, and pine siskins.
Black throated hummingbirds dive bomb to show their prowess to the females.

[link:https://imgur.com/gallery/MGatIKE|

Trailrider1951

(3,409 posts)
20. It's been a Finch Fest at my house!
Thu May 9, 2019, 10:37 PM
May 2019

Goldfinches, and House finches and sparrows, Oh MY! Along with the robins and the juncos and Anna's hummingbird. Thanks, Anna!

pazzyanne

(6,518 posts)
21. Love your view!
Thu May 9, 2019, 10:40 PM
May 2019

I love spring and the bird migrations. I have had black chinned sparrows, pine siskins, mourning doves, a pair of wood ducks, eastern phoebes, yellow throated vireos, golden crowned kinglets, cedar waxwings, gold finches, and my resident wrens. I spend a lot of time watching my yard for the migrating birds.

jpak

(41,741 posts)
30. All I got today are a soggy squirrel and squishy chickadees
Fri May 10, 2019, 11:13 AM
May 2019

a wet chipping sparrow and a soaked white-throated sparrow.

onethatcares

(16,133 posts)
32. birds in our side yard have nestlings
Sun May 12, 2019, 07:52 AM
May 2019

they've been going through a suet cake every two days.

We have one pair of cardinals, a flock of sparrows, one red head woodpecker, about 12 blue jays (peanut eaters), mourning doves, ring necked doves, an ocassional starling and a bunch of squirrels. Our robins passed through about a month ago.

I have to work just to keep up with the bird seed bill.

We're in west central coastal Floriduh and will be moving from this home in 2 weeks. The new home has a slightly larger yard and I'll have to start xeriscaping and planting shrubs for them to feel safe in.

A cup of coffee with them in the morning starts the day right, a happy hour with them in the evening winds it all down the way it should.

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