I've got cardinals, mourning doves, goldfinches, sparrows, black capped chickadees, I hear blue jays but they've snubbed my feeders thus far... and I still have grackles and starlings showing up. I used to have downy woodpeckers but have not seen or heard them this year, and I have not seen any hummingbirds yet. I did laugh when my husband's friend (who was over for dinner yesterday) looked at my nyger feeder, pointed and told his son, "Look, there's an oriole!" It was a goldfinch. And, much to my dismay, we had a sparrow fly into the door yesterday morning and die. We have done everything to reduce this -- moved the feeder further to the right, away from the flightpath; put one of those bird stickers on the window; left the glass rain-spotted for a while to break up the reflection. We had gone a long time without any deaths.

Ooooooo! Oooooooo!! I KNEW you wouldn't leave us here at the forum sad and deprived of your beautiful photos! I've been too concerned about disturbing fledglings to take photos of my own lately because frantic parents click at me when I even pass by on the trails, and with the 400mm lens I have to get fairly close and use a flash in the woods to have any kind of photo.

Wow - beautiful clear photos! Thanks for sharing these. That Caracara bird is very unique looking. Is it native to where you live?

black oil sunflower seeds will attract the most birds, but you WILL get squirrels too. You can plant native trees & shrubs instead. Do a search for native shrubs for wildlife.