my little house finches put in an appearance last week. I'm a happy camper. Never see the humming birds until a little later.

They are freaking EVERYWHERE.

(and they are so beautiful, I don't begrudge them their explicitness on my lawn. Or in the tree. Or on the gutter, or ... you get the picture)

We have a few regulars in our yard. One pair of very fat robins come every year and keep the bug population down for me. There is a pair of house finches. The little guy has a red head. He sits on the point of the roof of the garage and keeps his eye on the missus sitting on the nest they build annually in the eaves of our neighbors' garage. There are a group of sparrows too. This winter a couple of them hung around and managed to build a nest in the plastic cover of the window air conditioner. We get blue jays, swallows, fruit bats, hummingbirds, and woodpeckers. There was a catbird around here a couple of summers ago. Didn't see or hear him this last year.

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Lots of blue jays, many others the species of which I have no clue. I have feeders and I seed the ground. The squirrels love me for it, too.

just to your South but I have yet to see one. I was worried (still am) about the Orioles. Not a single one yet, good to know you have them. Hardly a Bluebird here either and many of those stay the winter but not seeing them. It is early. Last year was the worst ever, the drought and no song birds and I really mean no song birds. They beat it outta here by early June.

But I haven't seen any in my yard for a couple of months. I suspect that the western scrub jays raising their young in a nest under the eave are keeping other birds out of the immediate area.

So I guess that means there are two at your house.

he cracks me up.....sometimes I'll put peanuts on my patio railing, and I have seen him grab one and then swing upside down, like a bat

deliver an asskicking? I'm in Mississippi and still wear the boots! (Though I wear them while gardening).

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Cardinals, doves, bluejays, chickadees, robins, nuthatch, towhee, yellow finch, house finch, indigo bunting, three different versions of woodpecker, and mockingbird (a baby we've nicknamed Hughee who bullies the others.) Here's a pic of our pterodactyl woodpecker taken during the winter.

We see them quite a bit. Along with Great Horned owls at night. I had a hobby of going outside to hoot at it until I needed some sleep .

It *hooted* loud enough to stop a train one night when I took out the trash. It just sat there looking at me like, "well why did you put off taking the trash out until dark"?

awesome birds. I have a pair that seem to be here in NH every summer. (Or different pairs...who knows) I've gotten to know their call and their distinctive flight.
I wish I'd see owls ... only 3 or 4 times in my 25 years here.

I had a cockateil for over 15 years until she died. You can play with them, they bathe and they enjoy it.

Hundreds of them, mostly they live in Palm trees and saguaros.

The lovebirds are very playful, I've seen them spin on the telephone wire going to my neighbors house and once when I set up a portable sprinkler in the fornt yard about 10 showed up and played in the water.

I've gotten one clutch so far in my bluebird house and they have moved on. I'm hoping I'll get another this year.

....and the whitewing doves are pests. Favorite visitors: a pair of big blue scrub jays, who rule over the rest of the species, doves included.

Yes!

in my back yard. In checking my Peterson's Western Birds field guide I see all the sightings I have noted for this bird are in the month of April.

One problem I have noted is the absence of the Waxwings I normally see moving through. Strange.

They are here in the national forest adjoining my property. But there's so much unoccupied land around, one rarely sees them. Lots of the smaller woodpeckers here, though. Pileateds are notably a bit shy. I haven't seen one here in years.

They are beautiful. Once you see one, you'll never forget it.

Thanks for this.

When we go camping I put up a hummingbird feeder. It's very popular with the little birdies. We get them to perch on our fingers when they feed from it.

They land on my husband and just sit there while he's changing out the feeders.

the hummingbirds are just coming back into my area according to the map. No orioles yet, but I will get my jelly and orange slices ready!

I haven't seen any hummingbirds yet. Lots of blue-gray gnatcatchers. A yellow-throated warbler from the parking lot at work. Five kinds of warblers at a nearby park this morning.

thanks for all the beautiful pictures of the birds.....love them all.