When summer rolls around, a familiar bird in our backyard is the Baltimore oriole pictured above. One glance at her beak as she zooms through the backyard is enough to tell you the oriole has recently enjoyed a taste of the grape jelly in the backyard buffet. Hummingbirds, another common bird in Northeast Ohio during …
Ongoing saga of the backyard buffet
It's clear to the eye that this is another rainy morning, but nevertheless, the birds arrived for breakfast as usual. The redbellied woodpecker, shown in the picture above, wasn't happy to discover that the hopper feeder had been totally emptied overnight. She is not sure how this happens and neither are we, although we are …
More backyard birding
The colorful bird featured in my post yesterday, the redheaded woodpecker, is extremely rare in my backyard. Today's bird, the Baltimore oriole, used to stop by on rare occasions only. Now it flies in for multiple visits daily, enjoying the grape jelly I generously serve in the new jelly dish I purchased at Wild Birds …
SEEN ALONG THE TRAIL 