Thanks for not being mad Ms. Jean ,i do get overeager sometimes and totally miss stuff. Love your sunny bottom birdie. I think those are great pictures! That's definitely the little bird i have been seeing all week. They are fun to watch because they are so quick. They are really hunting the grass for bugs i guess because they are constantly on the ground flashing their little yellow bottoms :-) Thanks so much for the pictures. Awww Brenda, you dont have the little fluffy vacuum cleaner wrens? They have so much personality and are so much fun to watch. They are so naughty too :-) i just love love love them! They follow all the other birds around and see what they are interested in and then they start liking it too. That of course makes the other birds mad so then the chase begins and it looks like a game of peek a boo because they are so small and fast the other birds can never catch them! LOL....If one bird likes a nest box then the little Carolina wren likes it. If somebody hides food then the little wren eats it. If somebody is guarding a certain tree then that is the tree the wren wants to be in. If somebody likes guarding a vine then thats the vine the wren wants to be in, and on and on and on. They are so mischievous and fun to watch , i laugh all the time at their antics. They are just so naughty and cute. Wish i could send you some but i only have one pair and i would surely miss them just to much. They even pick the bugs off of our cars and every bug off every hanging plant too. Yep they are just so wonderful. Little reddish fluff balls with big beaks and big voices! LOL....I hope you get some, Brenda they are wonderful. I saw a male Northern flicker today and i never realized how big they are, and their beaks are huge too! Lol...I never ever want to make one of them mad. So pretty though and very shy. I have always heard them but never saw them. Very exciting for me to finally put a real face (and beak) to that wild call they have. He hung on the very tip of a branch to pluck dogwood berries and the northern mocking bird that guards that tree didn't mess with him either. I dont blame him! LOL...Bonnie

Nice to see them, isn't it? If they were in a flock, they were probably robins that stayed all winter. People think they all leave for warmer parts come fall, but up to 50% overwinter in flocks in their breeding areas up here. We just tend not to see them as much during winter, though mine have hovered around my yard since December so I got to take lots of pics.

I'm new here, so this is actually a question rather than comment. Last year, a Robin built a nest in iron basket on my front porch. About 3 weeks ago a dove built there and laid her eggs. Yesterday, a large piece from a plastic shopping bag was on top of the nest. The eggs were still there, but one has rolled away from the nest. The dove/s didn't return all day. This morning a Robin was working on building on top of the plastic and eggs. I am wondering what could have happened. Did the dove abandon because the eggs weren't going to hatch or something else.

Sorry to inform everyone that the robin died sometime last night. Yesterday morning I got up late and could not find the robin. I went around the neighborhood and then heard it across the street where some contractors doing work had fed it when it went up to them. I bought it back and decided to bring it inside since we are in the middle of a heatwave and it seemed weaker. It did not mind being in the container and it still ate everything I gave it. This morning I woke to find that it had died. The parents must have known it was sick and abondoned it. So sad, but it had another 9 days of life I guess. I have other videos but I'm not sure about posting them.