What a pretty bird! I love watching birds in our backyard. We get the usual cardinals, blue jays, mockingbirds, sparrows, doves, house finches, juncos, Carolina chickadees, cedar waxwings (in the winter), etc. One year we even had a red tailed hawk land on our arbor waiting for the little birds to come back to the feeder, but they were too smart to come out of hiding. I love hearing the house finches sing - such a pretty little song. Then there was the mockingbird would stay up late and get up early in the morning to sing his heart out trying to get a mate. We also have purple martins, but they don't visit feeders since they're bug eaters. I also see barn swallows along the greenbelt near our house. I love those since they zoom around eating even more bugs. We even have a dove pair that uses a nest on top of our arbor in the backyard. She was so good about sitting on that egg and keeping the baby warm, but the other day I looked out and it must have fallen out of the nest because a blue jay was jabbing at its neck. It was either eating it or had killed it. Mama dove was still on her nest not knowing what to do. I scared the blue jay away and picked up the baby in a plastic bag and threw it in the trash. Mama dove sat on her empty nest for a little while longer before figuring out she didn't have a baby anymore then flew away. I was just disgusted with the blue jay, but I guess that is nature.

Naw, I think they jus' like to eat stuff in my yard. They're here every morning now. I don't think they see me as a threat, even getting close enough to pet, but I don't want to have them pass the word that I'm a threat, so I don't reach out to pet them. We kinda jus' walk the same way, like when I'm huntin' dragonflies, real slow and methodical, so maybe they think I'm jus' one of them.

Wish he'd take away some of those oranges. I'm tired of choppin' em up with the lawn mower. I didn't think five orange trees could make so many oranges. He was soooo cool though, like an eerie silence as he flew past, almost like a bat, which I thought at first.

They are constantly checking their territory for new food sources, so one or two of them blunder into the feeder and start eating, other birds see them eating and it's been discovered.