A Hummingbird Nest!

6/8/12-Nicholas

    With a new hummingbird feeder, we have spotted a hummingbird nest with two eggs in the nest in a side field

of ours!  We have also seen numerous hummingbirds at the new feeder that we got.

Rattlesnake at our house!!

5/29/12/-Nicholas

  We saw a diamond-back rattlesnake 2 feet from our driveway dead with blood on its stomach on 5/27/12.  There were flies and gnats eating the snake!

A New Bird!

 5/22/12-Nicholas

I just saw this bird at the bird feeder that I haven't seen before.  If you think you know what type of bird this could be, please share it with us.  

Roadrunner! And Finch!

5/18/2012 - Wabbaloo

We have frequently seen roadrunners traipse through the yard with no respect for human presence, flaunting their latest catch of lizards.  Today was no exception.  Right there on the little walkway between the hummingbird/butterfly garden and the sitting area/container garden.  I couldn't get the camera in time to get a good pic, so I went out the front door and anticipated he'd be on the side or back of the house.  Saw him fly up into a cedar tree, make his way to the other side, and hop down into the neighbor's back yard.  I was able to get a pic of it against a fence, but it's just a pic of him from behind.  I was surprised that he didn't just walk through the high grass into the next yard.  Maybe he knew I was following him.  First pic is looking at him (in the neighbor's yard) from my yard:

Next is a crop from the above.  Unfortch, we only have a "beautiful" rear view of him, so you mostly make out the tail and that's it.  The camera will be placed near the window from now on.

As for the finch, no picture, unfortch.  Saw him fly out from a shrub in the front up to a Crepe Myrtle as I was walking by with the Pookaloo.  We do have a feeder out in front, but don't see a lot of traffic.  We've just planted two new Monterey Oaks in the back, though, and may put some feeders there.

As always, comments/suggestions welcome.

Sorry

5/3/12-Nicholas

    Sorry we don't post all our bird sightings, we do have to admit that there are a lot of bird that we should be posting, but we aren't. 

A Titmouse

4/27/12-Nicholas

   We have always seen titmice at our house and this is a picture of a so-called titmouse.  I think titmice are funny, small, and cute.  The picture is not all that great, but the bird is on the right side of the bird feeder.  

White-Winged Doves, Finches, and Butterflies!

4/25/2012 - Nicholas

        Yesterday I saw a white-winged dove in our bird feeder area.  Last year we saw a lot of white-winged doves in our backyard.  This time, the white-winged dove was on the sidewalk in front of our bird feeder just walking and picking on some bits of mulch.  It was the first white-winged dove we saw this year.

                 We also have been seeing several finches at our new finch bird feeder for the first time.  We've had that bird feeder for a couple months but only now have the finches started to come. We'll try to get some pics of the finches and doves.

                This past couple of weeks we have been sighting monarch butterflies at our house.  We have lantanas and butterfly weeds planted to attract the beautiful butterflies to our home.  

This pic is from a website on monarch butterflies.