Northern Mockingbird Eggs ~ still here!
Sorry for the bad pictures. Even though the nest is only 5 feet up it’s kind of sideways so it’s hard to know where the eggs are when I can’t see them! I have to use a camera above the nest.
Mockingbird nest with 4 eggs
Still 4 eggs!
The Peep and Mrs. Peep!
The Peep and Mrs. Peep!! Today The Peep showed up with Mrs. Peep. He has been singing nights for some time and it finally paid off! I saw two mockingbirds on the fence, assuming it was a mother and baby, and snapped two quick photos before they flew away. Upon review of the photos, I saw that it was not a mother and fledgling, but The Peep and a female mockingbird! The female came back shortly after and shortly after that they both came back and did courtship displays. The Peep sat higher than her on a stake and then flew, colliding with her, locking claws and wings until The Peep broke free and fanned out his tail on the fence while running like a fledgling. Mrs. Peep watched then The Peep flew back on a stake next to her and flew to different stakes. Mrs. Peep then flew away and The Peep followed. Then a while after The Peep sang a short, song of a call between a yellowlegs and a normal Peep call and flashed his wings while he dive into a tree. Gunner )The Peep and Mrs. Peep!! Today The Peep showed up with Mrs. Peep. He has been singing nights for some time and it finally paid off! I saw two mockingbirds on the fence, assuming it was a mother and baby, and snapped two quick photos before they flew away. Upon review of the photos, I saw that it was not a mother and fledgling, but The Peep and a female mockingbird! The female came back shortly after and shortly after that they both came back and did courtship displays. The Peep sat higher than her on a stake and then flew, colliding with her, locking claws and wings until The Peep broke free and fanned out his tail on the fence while running like a fledgling. Mrs. Peep watched then The Peep flew back on a stake next to her and flew to different stakes. Mrs. Peep then flew away and The Peep followed. Then a while after The Peep sang a short, song of a call between a yellowlegs and a normal Peep call and flashed his wings while he dive into a tree. Gunner (an older mockingbird who is like a father to The Peep), of course, was supervising all of this.
Bluebonnet’s Fledgling
I have been watching Bluebonnet (Yes, all mockingbirds besides The Peep and The Adversary must have Texas names) gather nesting material, and I have heard her baby calling from the nest. Yesterday her baby fledged from the nest.
More photos of the mockingbird nest
Northern Mockingbird Nest
Mrs. Gunner has a well-built cozy nest. I can’t wait for the eggs to hatch!
Cozy Mockingbird Eggs
Second visit from the same day as my other post. Mrs. Gunner does a great job at incubating and flipping her eggs. I wonder when her eggs will hatch.
Mrs. Gunner’s Nest
Mrs. Gunner. isn’t very protective. She sits on a perch or sign when I check her eggs and flies back after I have left her nest. She seems to like being famous on eBird and NestWatch!
Another visit to the mockingbird nest
Mrs. Gunner does a great job at sitting on her eggs, but she isn’t protective like mockingbirds are supposed to be. She flies away if we are anywhere near the nest.
Northern Mockingbird Nest
We were looking for nests, I didn’t think that we should check this nest because it was an old nest from last year, it turned out that Mrs. Gunner built a new nest on top of an old nest! We have seen the pair around those trees. I wonder when the eggs will hatch.
*RARE* yellow House Finch
*RARE* yellow House Finch on a tomato cage in the backyard!!
RARE Leucistic female Brown-headed Cowbird!
Female Mockingbird who likes The Peep
A female mockingbird has been watching The Peep sing and today she decided to join him for breakfast. The Peep is to young to start a family (He needs to be at least 1 year old which he will be in May)
Carolina Chickadees checking out my new nestbox
A male chickadee flew over to the fence near my nestbox, he then when inside, came out, and called to his female. She flew over and went inside. We just put the nestbox up 2 days ago.
Backyard Birds part 1
So many backyard birds that I never see! Cowbirds, finches, chickadees, and more!
Snow Geese, The Peep, Robin, Cedar waxwings.
We saw hundreds of Snow Geese. The Peep has been coming every day to eat peanut butter and attacked a robin and another young male Mockingbird that was trying to take his tree, we had a robin in our neighbor’s tree and we saw three Cedar Waxwings in The Peep’s tree.
Chipping Sparrows, Northern Cardinal, Cooper’s Hawk, The Peep, House Sparrow and Mourning Doves.
There are now about 30 Chipping Sparrows!
Rufous Hummingbird is back!
Rufous is back!
See more pictures of Rufous on eBird:
https://ebird.org/checklist/S117446941
https://ebird.org/checklist/S117392750
The hurt Mockingbird looks so much better!
The hurt mockingbird looks so much better. He loves peanut butter!
Northern Mockingbird nest
Northern Mockingbird nest at Paul D Rushing Chain of Lakes. Update: Tweet and Barney haven’t hatched yet. I hope they hatch soon! This nest is near the side of the road in between two ditches.
Tweet and Barney
Tweet and Barney. Tweet is the lighter one and Barney is the darker one.
Canada Geese
Goosey and Geesey the Canada Geese enjoying the lake. Goosey is the gander and Geesey is the goose.
Blue Jays!
Blue Jays!!!
Don’t Mess With Texas
A little Texas Mockingbird learning to be a proper state bird and enjoying some yummy mealworm suet.
Mockingbird Nest
we visited this nest and it was destroyed.
FEED ME!
Mockingbird fledgling yelling at its mother to feed it.
Fledgling Mockingbird
A baby Mockingbird. Trying to hunt for insects, wing-flashing. In case you’re wondering what the ‘toy’ was, she was playing with a clip for holding a bag of bread closed.
Baby Blue Jays
4 eggs were discovered in a nest in my Magnolia tree. It wasn’t too high up so I was able to get a small ladder and take pictures. First time ever to have a nest where I could see it. So excited to have babies. Two for sure, possibly 4 total.
Flycatcher Frenzy
The myiarchus flycatcher eggs have hatched and the parents are doing everything they can to keep their brood fed. At times they are so successful in the hunt they have to wait for the other parent to leave the nestbox before they can come in. This was one such incident. – Picture taken and uploaded by Paul Pruitt, Docent
Texas baby Cardinals 2nd day
2nd day of finding cardinals nest