In this video you will be watching: Red cardinals, Black Phoebes, Mourning Doves, Sparrows, Downy Woodpeckers, and Red-bellied woodpeckers. Sit back, relax and enjoy the birds that visit our yard every day.
I grew up in Marshall but now reside in Fairfax county great video I really miss the country and I do try my hardest to get all these wild birds to come to my porch so far I’ve only seen a bunch of woodpecker’s Cardinals starlings a lot of house sparrows very few mockingbirds lots of eagles lots of hawks. Maybe I live too close to the Potomac but this video brought me so much joy thank you for your share
I enjoyed this very much. We never see two male cardinals at our feeders at the same time, but a male and female come together. What you call a black phoebe, I know as a dark-eyed junco. They come to the feeders in a flock, and some sit in a nearby shrub while others are feeding. I do worry about the doves who fall sleep on the ground. There are lots of cats in our neighborhood. We also have a number of blue jays, so pretty.
Yea those are dark-eyed juncos. I live in Virginia and I see them sometimes flocking with other sparrow species in the winter time. We get Eastern Phoebes in wooded and suburban areas.
One of my favourite things to do when I travel abroad is take in the local bird life and see which tier of the ecosystem is occupied locally. Even in the UK, there's variation from urban gardens to rural gardens and different birds occupy those slots accordingly. For example, its often starlings and house sparrows in urban and suburban gardens with a few blue and great tits to boot. But now, we're in the country, we get all manner of different field based species including finches and birds of prey. When you go to a different country, that effect is magnified and the tiers are often occupied by similar families but with species seperation in terms of colouring etc. Seeing the reds and the crests in your local population really brings that home and I think they're wonderful to see. Had it been California, I don't doubt we would see another set of species filling those same feeding ecosystem tiers. Its superficially trivial but once you start scratching the surface of the ecology of garden birds it opens up a veritable gold mine of biology and ecology. Absolutely fascinates me and always has....thanks for posting that mate, it brightened my already excellent Boxing Day :-)
Glad you enjoyed that and thanks for the insights into the species and family groups. The same mix, just different actual species occupying the various niches. I’d never thought about that before. Would like to setup a hide out there and do a better job of closeups. If time permits.
@@smoogleville8201 its brilliant mate....I spend half my down time when on hols abroad seeing which garden birds come when you put crumbs down. Poops and I frequently get to the stage of feeding birds from our hand on the balconies of various hotels. We're also fascinated with lizards and all manner of other reptiles that you get in warmer climes but not the UK :-)
