Me! I have always loved bird-watching. I got one of those smart feeders for Christmas that takes pictures for you and sends them to your phone app. Wonderful invention, and I thought I’d get some great pictures today since we’re in a winter storm. Alas: my feeder is facing north, it’s snowing and -5°. I’m not going outside to clean the lens now! 😩

I'm perpetually fighting the *!*!*!* grey squirrels which raid the nut feeders. They're not even a native species but an invasive. I live in a town but we do get various small birds.

A blurry robin, one of my favourites and very intrepid around humans.

Last summer I had to remove a bird bath in the front yard due to a neighbor cat. Well the neighbors just moved!! Yah! Maybe I can try it again.

Floral, they are pesky! And so smart, it’s both frustrating and entertaining to watch them figure out the latest ”squirrel-proof” birdfeeder. Squirrels see that and say, ”hold my acorn”.

I live in the woods and have dozens if not hundreds of squirrels running around. I gave up feeding the birds long ago because of them. I still get plenty of birds though. I like watching my small flock of chickens range around my property. With the snow, cold, and wind they will have to stay in the coop/run for the next few days. They're gonna be cranky!

Me! We have 2 birdbaths and multiple birdfeeders. Every animal we get has gone to the birdbath for drinks, including deer, foxes, raccoons, bear, turkeys and birds of course.

Last winter, we had a flock of bluebirds come to our heated birdbath - they stayed for quite awhile. We don't see bluebirds very often and sadly didn't get a photo of them. We do have birdfeeders, but only put sunflower hearts in them. Bluebirds prefer mealworms. We tried suet cakes but the squirrels just drag them off into the woods. The squirrels also trashed our thistle feeder so we keep it simple - a heated birdbath (which our dogs love drinking from) and we feed the birds (and squirrels) that will eat sunflower hearts from our sturdy tube feeders and what falls on the ground.

Cardinals, chickadees, finches, titmice, nuthatches, juncos, bluejays, woodpeckers and flickers are always present. We do occasionally see painted buntings, cedar waxwings and once a rufous sided towhee. American robins hang around here all winter, as well.

Me too..............

We have Brome Squirrel Buster feeders and 2 suet feeders and they do a decent job of thwarting the squirrels. This photo is from Brome's site - these work!

I live in NYC and you’d be surprised how many birds I see. I love the birdsong, and I have the Merlin bird ID app. You can identify by photo or recording. I get a kick out of the names. Here is s screenshot of the most recent. I identified by recording (not my photos…I wish!)

I finally have a Red-rumped Cacique and a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 🤭

I think we get a lot of birds through here because the East River is just one block away and there’s a fairly big park across the street.

Here’s a little squirrel humor for you. We have tons of those too. Raccoons and possums too believe it or not

I'm in awe of all the shots you've all managed to get of your visitors. Beautiful!

Michele, I have never heard of the red-rumped cacique. It didn't show up in my Audubon app. When I looked it up in Wikipedia, it says it is found in South America. Is that the bird you saw??

I fed the birds for over 20 years at this house but I finally gave it up. It attracted the pigeons that live at the hardward store. They were awful. Besides being so pushy and running every other bird away, they ate all the seed and none of the other birds got anything. One neighbor still feeds the birds but the feeder is hung under a blue spruce and only the squirrels and deer fight the birds for seed.

I do still have a hummingbird feeder up right outside my back door so I can watch them easily.

I have Merlin ID too and I love having my window open and using it to identify the birds within earshot.

I try my best to feed the birds and spent the afternoon chasing the resident squirrels while the cardinals, juncos,doves , chipping and song sparrows tried to eat the seed.I have suet and corn for the squirrels and woodpeckers and seed for the birds that I put on the ground and into the two feeders. It's very cold here and will be below zero tonight. I remember the time in 1994 when it was 22 below (the all-time record)and dead birds littered the yard.

Roxsolid, where do you live???

Murraysmom…. I never did see the bird. I was outside on the deck, I heard an unusual birdsong and tried to identify it. Could it have been wrong?

I live in the San Jose suburbs and love to watch birds that visit my yard. However, apart from hummers who visit sporadically, I don't feed the birds because the feeders and dropped seeds attracted rats. Since dh doesn’t spray the grass anymore —that was an argument—we have more and varied birds now, and it delights me. The ones that thrill me are the bluebirds, which I’d never seen before the last 3-4 years. They are so very beautiful!!

Michele, looks like they are related to grackles and blackbirds which definitely are common in the US. Makes more sense to me.

I need to learn more about these birds I hear. I’m sure on the sapsucker though. We see and hear them in the backyard occasionally.

I have 31 birds identified… I’ll have to go through that list and verify. The Cacique seems like an error for sure.

I started watching and learning about birds at least 40 years ago, I think. I was living in San Francisco and I visited a good friend who lived in Seattle. She was an avid birder and gave me a Peterson's Guide to the Birds book. Using peel off red dots, I started keeping records of all the birds I saw. Very old school but I still like to look at it once in awhile. It made every vacation even more interesting. Have fun with your app. Getting to hear them is such a bonus!!!

It is going to be a long day for everyone and the birds - stay safe

I also have that app. And the identification depends on how many other things were going on at the same time. If the sound came through loud and clear, and that was the ID I would say it’s accurate.

I am sooo loving your photos! I gave up trying to feed birds when the squirrels began emptying the feeder in 1 and 1/2 days. Then a friend gave me a Yankee feeder. Best feeder ever! those squirrels only get slung off it once and don't come back. I get mostly commn birds, but the cardinals make my day.