Such nice closeups. Love seeing more Chickadees back in the pool. Seems like the time change brought a final departure from summer birds to the winter, full time residents. I'm waiting for the sweet little Juncos to arrive. Take care and have a lovely week. 🍂🌾🥰🌾🍂
@@meglange3595 Yes, the last of the summer birds have departed and the winter birds are just starting to arrive. Yesterday, I saw one Junco and one White-throated Sparrow, plus a Flicker and a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. Thanks for watching and hope you have a good week too.
Thank you again! I am packing to move and am amid a storm of boxes and just stuff - so sitting down this evening to de-stress with a little quiet time with the birds - so relaxing. Someone mentioned that the bird song we heard while the northern cardinal was bathing near the end was a wren....?????
What a sweet, quiet interlude with our friends, the "Tennessee Titmouse crew" carrying the show! ❤ Cool to see the RB woodpecker, and I surely look forward to seeing the Pileated footage next week. The log idea seems to be working very well 🙂 Beautiful editing esp the ending with Cardinal bath and wren calling. Peace, y'all
Unfortunately, there’s been a big Red Tailed Hawk hanging around, so the woodpeckers have been scarce this week. Got some footage last weekend, tho. The little White-breasted Nuthatches keep visiting, though, so I think the idea that the logs can provide better access for the tree clingers is working out. I’d love to see the elusive Brown Creepers stop by for a drink. Thanks for watching!
The red headed woodpecker was very thirsty. Many of the birds were drinking more than bathing. Has the weather been dry there and water hard to find? I appreciate your dedication to the birds and to your viewers. These videos are always such a treat for me. Thank you.
Aww, thanks 😊 And it has been dry here recently. I noticed lots of birds stopping by for a drink. Particularly the woodpeckers and nuthatches. I think maybe they have a harder time getting to water, since they don’t hop around on the ground like other birds do.
They know the camera is there, don't they? They must, because so many seem to focus on it (the Cardinal seems to continually look). Also, I am always amazed at the number of Tufted titmice who visit your pools. I have a bubbler and a dripper and we spend a great deal of time watching each and have never seen a Titmouse once come for a drink or a bath. Maybe once the little stream/waterfall is done that will change. Loved this quiet time. Thank you!
They can see the camera. It’s not hidden, and it sits right on the edge of the bathing pool. The Titmice like to land on it and give it a good shake before getting in the water 😄. I think the type of birds you get depends a lot on the surrounding habitat. I have a lot of mature trees here that host insects for the Titmice and other birds. The Titmice do visit the feeders and they particularly enjoy peanuts and black oil sunflower seeds. But they also spend a lot of time hunting for insects in the trees. Anything you can do to increase the number and variety of insects on your property should lead to a greater variety of birds visiting. Insects are particularly important in the spring because they’re essential for a successful nesting season. Almost all songbird nestlings in the eastern US (I think American Goldfinches are the only exception) depend on insects to survive. There must be plenty of the bugs here that the Titmice need to raise their young, because their population keeps growing 🙂 Thanks for watching and have a great week!
Thanks for posting another week of cute little birds 😍 What's the bird singing in the background while the Cardinal is taking a bath? I live in a different part of the country so it's not a local bird for me. Thanks!
Yes, so am I. I feed them all year so they're typically close. The Titmice and Nuthatches usually come around September, but the chickadees and woodpeckers stay and gobble suet and sunflower seeds.
@sandiheilman-ry4jt Chasing them from suet or seeds? I only open the one side of suet that goes in the metal suet cages. I also have special suet feeders that hang upside down and only birds who can hang can get to it. The other suet is in a square cage, that's the one I only open one side - I don't take it out of the plastic container. Just peel the film back and insert it in the feeder. So they can't get at it from both sides. (Because of grackles and starlings in the spring) I also have squirrel proof bird feeders. I have also taken soft plastic bowls and made a hole in them and put them upside down on the feeder chain so the squirrels can't climb down and eat it all. But there are always squirrels here and to deter them I feed them too. I buy bags of corn and peanuts for them. I also slather peanut butter on a piece of wood and it's on a chain hanging from a tree on a chain. The squirrels and woodpeckers occupy themselves on that twisty turning slab of wood (with the bark on) to get the peanut butter. I only do this in the winter when it's cold. Below or at freezing. They love it and even the little birds love it too. I smear some on small tree branches so they can get some. There are squirrel proof feeders at Tractor supply and most hardware stores. I would suggest you look online about discouraging squirrels, you'll find some hilarious content that will give you some good laughs - and perhaps see something that will be useful for you to arrange your feeders so the squirrels can't get to them. I hang everything from branches. So idk if you just tack them to the sides of trees or porch posts or rails. Good luck.
@@sandiheilman-ry4jt I have my feeders on a pole that has a stove pipe type baffle to keep the other critters off. It works great. Just need to make sure to locate it far enough away from trees and buildings that the squirrels can’t jump across. I got pole from Wild Birds Unlimited and added their big raccoon size baffle because the raccoons here will clump right over the smaller squirrel baffles.
@@TracyBirds The water is recirculating. I have two water features for the birds. The first clips, with the log at the edge of the water, are from a little recirculating steam that flows to the pool in the video. The second set of clips, with the rocks in the background, are from what I call the bird pond. It has a gentle waterfall with water flowing over some flat rocks down to the pool in the video. I film the birds during the week and post a new video each Sunday. Thanks for watching!
@@tracykharp I don’t use a heater. It rarely gets cold enough to freeze solid here. During the coldest months, a sheet of ice forms on the surface overnight but melts pretty quickly with the sun. Since these are in the ground, with the pumps below ground level, the water doesn’t freeze as quickly as it would in an elevated birdbath. If the high temperature is going to be below freezing for more than a few days, I unplug the pumps until it warms back up. I try to keep things as natural as possible, and a natural water source would be cold and occasionally frozen over, so I’ve decided not to heat these. I might think differently, though, if I lived somewhere that regularly froze solid in the winter.
Just beautiful
@@bonnieklimcsak222 Thanks for watching. Have a good week 🙂
Such nice closeups. Love seeing more Chickadees back in the pool. Seems like the time change brought a final departure from summer birds to the winter, full time residents. I'm waiting for the sweet little Juncos to arrive.
Take care and have a lovely week.
🍂🌾🥰🌾🍂
@@meglange3595 Yes, the last of the summer birds have departed and the winter birds are just starting to arrive. Yesterday, I saw one Junco and one White-throated Sparrow, plus a Flicker and a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. Thanks for watching and hope you have a good week too.
I love your channel.
Thanks for sharing these lovely birbs.
@@sylphofthewildwoods5518 Thanks for watching! It’s always nice to have people to share the birbs with 🙂
Neat woodpecker project.
@@ThreeRunHomer one of the big Pileated Woodpeckers showed up yesterday! I have some clips to share next week
@@WarblerRidgeI can’t wait to see that!
Thank you again! I am packing to move and am amid a storm of boxes and just stuff - so sitting down this evening to de-stress with a little quiet time with the birds - so relaxing. Someone mentioned that the bird song we heard while the northern cardinal was bathing near the end was a wren....?????
So glad you found this relaxing. Yes, that was a Carolina Wren singing. They’re loud little things 🙂
What a sweet, quiet interlude with our friends, the "Tennessee Titmouse crew" carrying the show! ❤
Cool to see the RB woodpecker, and I surely look forward to seeing the Pileated footage next week. The log idea seems to be working very well 🙂
Beautiful editing esp the ending with Cardinal bath and wren calling.
Peace, y'all
Unfortunately, there’s been a big Red Tailed Hawk hanging around, so the woodpeckers have been scarce this week. Got some footage last weekend, tho. The little White-breasted Nuthatches keep visiting, though, so I think the idea that the logs can provide better access for the tree clingers is working out. I’d love to see the elusive Brown Creepers stop by for a drink. Thanks for watching!
The red headed woodpecker was very thirsty. Many of the birds were drinking more than bathing. Has the weather been dry there and water hard to find? I appreciate your dedication to the birds and to your viewers. These videos are always such a treat for me. Thank you.
Aww, thanks 😊 And it has been dry here recently. I noticed lots of birds stopping by for a drink. Particularly the woodpeckers and nuthatches. I think maybe they have a harder time getting to water, since they don’t hop around on the ground like other birds do.
They know the camera is there, don't they? They must, because so many seem to focus on it (the Cardinal seems to continually look). Also, I am always amazed at the number of Tufted titmice who visit your pools. I have a bubbler and a dripper and we spend a great deal of time watching each and have never seen a Titmouse once come for a drink or a bath. Maybe once the little stream/waterfall is done that will change. Loved this quiet time. Thank you!
They can see the camera. It’s not hidden, and it sits right on the edge of the bathing pool. The Titmice like to land on it and give it a good shake before getting in the water 😄. I think the type of birds you get depends a lot on the surrounding habitat. I have a lot of mature trees here that host insects for the Titmice and other birds. The Titmice do visit the feeders and they particularly enjoy peanuts and black oil sunflower seeds. But they also spend a lot of time hunting for insects in the trees. Anything you can do to increase the number and variety of insects on your property should lead to a greater variety of birds visiting. Insects are particularly important in the spring because they’re essential for a successful nesting season. Almost all songbird nestlings in the eastern US (I think American Goldfinches are the only exception) depend on insects to survive. There must be plenty of the bugs here that the Titmice need to raise their young, because their population keeps growing 🙂 Thanks for watching and have a great week!
Thanks for posting another week of cute little birds 😍 What's the bird singing in the background while the Cardinal is taking a bath? I live in a different part of the country so it's not a local bird for me. Thanks!
That’s the Carolina Wren singing in the background. They have a really big voice for such a small bird. Thanks for watching!
I have been getting a number of chickadees, nuthatches and tufted titmice now that the weather has turned cold. Putting out the suet.
Yes, so am I.
I feed them all year so they're typically close. The Titmice and Nuthatches usually come around September, but the chickadees and woodpeckers stay and gobble suet and sunflower seeds.
@sylphofthewildwoods5518 I have trouble with squirrels chasing them away. Any advice?
@sandiheilman-ry4jt
Chasing them from suet or seeds?
I only open the one side of suet that goes in the metal suet cages. I also have special suet feeders that hang upside down and only birds who can hang can get to it. The other suet is in a square cage, that's the one I only open one side - I don't take it out of the plastic container. Just peel the film back and insert it in the feeder. So they can't get at it from both sides. (Because of grackles and starlings in the spring)
I also have squirrel proof bird feeders. I have also taken soft plastic bowls and made a hole in them and put them upside down on the feeder chain so the squirrels can't climb down and eat it all. But there are always squirrels here and to deter them I feed them too. I buy bags of corn and peanuts for them. I also slather peanut butter on a piece of wood and it's on a chain hanging from a tree on a chain. The squirrels and woodpeckers occupy themselves on that twisty turning slab of wood (with the bark on) to get the peanut butter. I only do this in the winter when it's cold. Below or at freezing. They love it and even the little birds love it too. I smear some on small tree branches so they can get some. There are squirrel proof feeders at Tractor supply and most hardware stores. I would suggest you look online about discouraging squirrels, you'll find some hilarious content that will give you some good laughs - and perhaps see something that will be useful for you to arrange your feeders so the squirrels can't get to them. I hang everything from branches. So idk if you just tack them to the sides of trees or porch posts or rails. Good luck.
@@sandiheilman-ry4jt I just started filling the peanut feeders again. Need get some suet now that the weather is tarting to cool down.
@@sandiheilman-ry4jt I have my feeders on a pole that has a stove pipe type baffle to keep the other critters off. It works great. Just need to make sure to locate it far enough away from trees and buildings that the squirrels can’t jump across. I got pole from Wild Birds Unlimited and added their big raccoon size baffle because the raccoons here will clump right over the smaller squirrel baffles.
Thanks for sharing! Is that pond water still (no fountain)?
@@TracyBirds The water is recirculating. I have two water features for the birds. The first clips, with the log at the edge of the water, are from a little recirculating steam that flows to the pool in the video. The second set of clips, with the rocks in the background, are from what I call the bird pond. It has a gentle waterfall with water flowing over some flat rocks down to the pool in the video. I film the birds during the week and post a new video each Sunday. Thanks for watching!
That tufted titmouse had a blast of a bath
They really do seem to enjoy their bath time. 🙂
do you heat the water in winter to keep it unfrozen for them
@@tracykharp I don’t use a heater. It rarely gets cold enough to freeze solid here. During the coldest months, a sheet of ice forms on the surface overnight but melts pretty quickly with the sun. Since these are in the ground, with the pumps below ground level, the water doesn’t freeze as quickly as it would in an elevated birdbath. If the high temperature is going to be below freezing for more than a few days, I unplug the pumps until it warms back up. I try to keep things as natural as possible, and a natural water source would be cold and occasionally frozen over, so I’ve decided not to heat these. I might think differently, though, if I lived somewhere that regularly froze solid in the winter.
those tufted titmice sure love to bathe!
I love those little guys. Such sweet birds. And busy, busy, busy 😄