Excellent!
Junco couple coming to eat cracked corn off my patio which goldfinch and chickadee threw out.
Kat watches for more birds as guard dog.
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I had that happen with my cherry tree and the plastic bird netting too.
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Updates! Let’s see how HE did. (I didn’t know the male Oriole built the nests!)
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What a great clip, thanks for posting. Butterflies are one of life’s simple pleasures. They embody grace and beauty .
“Butterflies are flowers that fly and all but sing”- Robert Frost
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WOW! They have been BUSY! Thanks to you and your cool photos, I’ve just been goggling other photos and facts about “western Orioles” (same as hooded oriole??) and find them really neat (nests and the beautiful birds themselves which I was unfamiliar with). Of course we don’t have them here, nor any other bird that builds a nest similar to that. It looks like a nest you’d see in the rainforest or something. fascinating to me as a big nature/animal lover, so thanks for posting.
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Yes, aka hooded oriole.
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They are all over the place. They ate some of my young green hot peppers today. I chased them away.
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Dinner!
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good to keep the bug pressure down.
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The starlings were here last month, built a few nests in our neighborhood and also cleaned out a lot of beetle grubs 
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As a wild turkey hunter, I love those photos and love those birds- both as game and as bug catchers. We have lots of them around here, and I often see dozens of them out in fields. However, I’ve often remarked how rare it is to see baby wild turkeys here. I guess mom keeps them in the woods and under deep cover until they are the size of those in your photo or larger? Knowing how much hawks enjoy my baby chickens, I’m sure thats why turkey chicks stay under cover.
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Found this nest in a small pine tree I was thinking of cutting down. Not sure what type of birds they’ll be.
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Kat is begging to go pretend to be a plant and roll in dirt again. She is wildlife. Life with her is wild!
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The nest itself and egg markings look like a Cardinal is the likely resident.
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