This morning Chrissi spotted it for the first time, and during the day I’ve seen it a further 4 times! A couple months ago we bought a small humming bird feeder from Wild Birds Unlimited. We were warned that on a balcony, in the shade of trees, far away from any flowers it is very [...]
Another naming competition! A couple of weeks ago, we got some bird seed, and a block of suet and seed to hang from our balcony. Since then we’ve had more and more visitors! Our favourite is still the bright blue (and very clever!) Stellar’s Jay. Then there’s the flocks of fluffy little birds (up to [...]
We saw this bird picking snow off the tree this morning, so we put out some warm water and bread crumbs – it came right away! The picture doesn’t do it justice – the blue was much more intense. edit: As Laura informed us: this is a Stellar’s Jay!