Sunday, February 27, 2022

Screech Owls Calling



Nest box Update! The sound of the Eastern Screech Owl couple Luna and Odie calling in and outside the nest box last night. They are going through their final stages of courtship and eggs should start being lain at least by late next week, Nobody was watching for hours at a time during this quiet period so I will restart the live feed later next week. The system has had a thorough test out the last few days. Obviously the microphones are working well the sound of the screech owls is amazing. So stay tuned! Filmed inside with two Green Backyard POE Wired IP Birdhouse Cameras with Audio, HD 1080P on Amazon at: https://amzn.to/3eBWJF0 and outside with SV3C HD 5MP PoE Camera Outdoor 5X Optical Zoom & 2.7-13.5MM Varifocal Lens on Amazon at: https://amzn.to/3gWD2HJ Songbird Essentials SE519 Screech Owl House on amazon at: https://amzn.to/3HoaYIl Commissions Earned 🔴 New HD videos uploaded weekly. If you enjoy the videos please subscribe, ring the bell to get all channel upload notifications, like, and comment! Ways to support this Channel: 🔴 PayPal Donation to: mybackyardbirding@gmail.com 🔴 MBYB Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/backyard... 🔴Backyard Birder's AMAZON shop: https://www.amazon.com/shop/mybackyar... As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. A small portion of each sale goes toward supporting the Backyard without increasing costs to you.


Saturday, February 26, 2022

White Eyed Vireo



This is the first white-eyed vireo I've captured on film. A small and secretive bird of shrubby areas of the eastern and southern United States, the White-eyed Vireo is a full-time resident of the Florida peninsula, but is more often heard than seen. They prefer heavy cover not unlike the Painted Buntings. Filmed with Solar Powered 4K UHD Trail Camera on Amazon at: https://amzn.to/3LFNwtz Commission Earned 🔴 New HD videos uploaded weekly. If you enjoy the videos please subscribe, ring the bell to get all channel upload notifications, like, and comment! Ways to support this Channel: 🔴 PayPal Donation to: mybackyardbirding@gmail.com 🔴 MBYB Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/backyard... 🔴Backyard Birder's AMAZON shop: https://www.amazon.com/shop/mybackyar... As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. A small portion of each sale goes toward supporting the Backyard without increasing costs to you.



Thursday, February 24, 2022

Wingscapes Automatic Bird Feeder Test and Tutorial



A real-world test and review and of the Wingscapes Moultrie AutoFeeder® Automatic Bird Feeder along with many tips and ideas for use of this versatile bird or animal ground feeder. I was ably assisted by the creatures of the Backyard who loved the feeder. Wingscapes AutoFeeder® Automatic Bird Feeder on Amazon: https://amzn.to/35puvus Filmed with GoPro Hero 10 on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3BJDoey Commissions Earned Disclosure This feeder was provided by Pradco parent company of Wingscapes/Moultrie for testing, all opinions are my own. #Sponsored 🔴 New HD videos uploaded weekly. If you enjoy the videos please subscribe, ring the bell to get all channel upload notifications, like, and comment! Ways to support this Channel: 🔴 PayPal Donation to: mybackyardbirding@gmail.com 🔴 MBYB Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/backyard... 🔴Backyard Birder's AMAZON shop: https://www.amazon.com/shop/mybackyar... As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. A small portion of each sale goes toward supporting the Backyard without increasing costs to you.

Sunday, February 20, 2022

Birds Versus Rats - Rats Exploiting Birds?



This exasperating battle of wills between a tiny cotton rat and the resident Backyard Grackles over a little bit of spilled seed on the forest floor is humorous and entertaining on one level, neither of them can harm each other, but there is more going on here than meets the eye. To the Grackles the little rat is a pest, but to the rat the Grackles are life savers. BIRDS CAN BE IMPORTANT TO RATS http://archive-srel.uga.edu/outreach/... Filmed with Solar Powered 4K UHD Trail Camera on Amazon at: https://amzn.to/3LFNwtz Commission Earned 🔴 New HD videos uploaded weekly. If you enjoy the videos please subscribe, ring the bell to get all channel upload notifications, like, and comment! Ways to support this Channel: 🔴 PayPal Donation to: mybackyardbirding@gmail.com 🔴 MBYB Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/backyard... 🔴Backyard Birder's AMAZON shop: https://www.amazon.com/shop/mybackyar... As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. A small portion of each sale goes toward supporting the Backyard without increasing costs to you.



Saturday, February 19, 2022

Scrub Jays (Corvids) Swallowing Stones



The Florida Scrub Jay is a threatened member of the corvid family primarily due to habitat loss and is the only bird endemic to Florida. They are very gregarious and family orientated birds, even more so than their cousins the Blue Jays. Here a group of 4 to 6 of them are picking little stones just the right size from a gravel trail in the scrub to hold in their crops for grinding up food to aid digestion. 
Crows and Ravens (big corvids)  of course swallow much bigger stones see them at: https://youtu.be/yqs5xCD7-oE
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Sunday, February 13, 2022

Black Vultures Nesting in Backyard - Valentine's Day Special



They are a little Gothic, but Black Vultures are admirable under-appreciated birds - they mate for life, are incredibly dedicated and attentive to each other and their young, and provide a valuable civic service by cleaning up carrion. They are again nesting in the Backyard this year this is their story. Black Vultures Mating Video: https://youtu.be/RNtxd7y465I My Black Vulture Hiking Buddies: https://youtu.be/-KHziaN3HQE Filmed with Canon SX70HS on Amazon at: https://amzn.to/2QftDPd Commission Earned 🔴 New HD videos uploaded weekly. If you enjoy the videos please subscribe, ring the bell to get all channel upload notifications, like, and comment! Ways to support this Channel: 🔴 PayPal Donation to: mybackyardbirding@gmail.com 🔴 MBYB Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/backyard... 🔴Backyard Birder's AMAZON shop: https://www.amazon.com/shop/mybackyar... As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. A small portion of each sale goes toward supporting the Backyard without increasing costs to you.

Friday, February 11, 2022

Blue Jays Plant More Trees Than Squirrels



I captured some nice close-up footage of Blue Jays burying or “caching” acorns well away from the backyard oaks and it prompted me to investigate further and make this mini-documentary in appreciation. Often we tend to think of squirrels as the planter of forests and they do plant their fair share of trees, but seldom far from their territories and certainly not as far and as fast as Blue Jays can. Filmed with Solar Powered 4K UHD Trail Camera on Amazon at: https://amzn.to/3JjDFYl Commission Earned Source information: https://lucec.loyno.edu/natural-histo... https://ebird.org/pa/news/jays-airlif... W. Carter Johnson and Curtis S. Adkisson (1986, Airlifting the oaks, Natural History 10: 40-47) 🔴 New HD videos uploaded weekly. If you enjoy the videos please subscribe, ring the bell to get all channel upload notifications, like, and comment! Ways to support this Channel: 🔴 PayPal Donation to: mybackyardbirding@gmail.com 🔴 MBYB Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/backyard... 🔴Backyard Birder's AMAZON shop: https://www.amazon.com/shop/mybackyar... As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. A small portion of each sale goes toward supporting the Backyard without increasing costs to you.

Thursday, February 10, 2022

Cardinal and Catbird



A male Northern Cardinal enjoys white millet while the Gray Catbird does what they do best, take a bath. They like their relative the Mockingbird had little interest in seeds when there is water nearby. Filmed with GoPro Hero 10 on Amazon at: https://amzn.to/3oHrgp9 Commission Earned Also check the official GoPro website it may be cheaper there but with an annual subscription. 🔴 New HD videos uploaded weekly. If you enjoy the videos please subscribe, ring the bell to get all channel upload notifications, like, and comment! Ways to support this Channel: 🔴 PayPal Donation to: mybackyardbirding@gmail.com 🔴 MBYB Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/backyard... 🔴Backyard Birder's AMAZON shop: https://www.amazon.com/shop/mybackyar... As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. A small portion of each sale goes toward supporting the Backyard without increasing costs to you.

Sunday, February 6, 2022

Raccoon Adjusts Camera To Capture Perfect Family Selfie



Raccoon Kit adjusts the camera just right and then runs back into the frame to film Mother raccoon and her 4 kits drinking all together. A little later another kit totally over-corrects the other way. Filmed with Solar Powered 4K UHD Trail Camera on Amazon at: https://amzn.to/3Gp5lt3 Commission Earned 🔴 New HD videos uploaded weekly. If you enjoy the videos please subscribe, ring the bell to get all channel upload notifications, like, and comment! Ways to support this Channel: 🔴 PayPal Donation to: mybackyardbirding@gmail.com 🔴 MBYB Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/backyard... 🔴Backyard Birder's AMAZON shop: https://www.amazon.com/shop/mybackyar... As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. A small portion of each sale goes toward supporting the Backyard without increasing costs to you.

Saturday, February 5, 2022

Otter Scent Marking Territory



River Otters are Highly social animals that communicate with other members of their species as they travel through vigorous scent-marking by vigorously scratching, rubbing, and rolling on the ground matting down vegetation and scraping up absorbent grass clumps and squirting urine, and defecating. Filmed with Canon SX70HS on Amazon at: https://amzn.to/2QftDPd Commission Earned 🔴 New HD videos uploaded weekly. If you enjoy the videos please subscribe, ring the bell to get all channel upload notifications, like, and comment! Ways to support this Channel: 🔴 PayPal Donation to: mybackyardbirding@gmail.com 🔴 MBYB Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/backyard... 🔴Backyard Birder's AMAZON shop: https://www.amazon.com/shop/mybackyar... As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. A small portion of each sale goes toward supporting the Backyard without increasing costs to you.


Friday, February 4, 2022

Florida Scrub Jay Mini-Documentary



Calls of the unique Florida Scrub Jay and interesting facts of their lives! 4K original media. A precious and sweet bird, the endangered Florida Scrub Jay is the only bird species endemic to Florida and one of only 15 birds endemic to the United States. Filmed with Canon EOS R6 on Amazon at: https://amzn.to/3HjI8tk Canon RF 24–240mm F4-6.3 is USM Lens on Amazon at: https://amzn.to/32PJkpw Commission Earned https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/b... https://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/pr... https://www.floridastateparks.org/lea... 🔴 New HD videos uploaded weekly. If you enjoy the videos please subscribe, ring the bell to get all channel upload notifications, like, and comment! Ways to support this Channel: 🔴 PayPal Donation to: mybackyardbirding@gmail.com 🔴 MBYB Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/backyard... 🔴Backyard Birder's AMAZON shop: https://www.amazon.com/shop/mybackyar... As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. A small portion of each sale goes toward supporting the Backyard without increasing costs to you.

Wednesday, February 2, 2022

Happy Groundhog Day




Groundhog's Day February 2nd - a time to appreciate the giant member of the squirrel family also known as a Woodchuck or Whistle Pig. This is Woodstock the mountain woodchuck of Backyard North. To see some great footage of groundhogs climbing trees a few years ago check out: https://youtu.be/h2jOgTeIr2M Filmed with Canon SX70HS on Amazon at: https://amzn.to/2QftDPd Commission Earned 🔴 New HD videos uploaded weekly. If you enjoy the videos please subscribe, ring the bell to get all channel upload notifications, like, and comment! Ways to support this Channel: 🔴 PayPal Donation to: mybackyardbirding@gmail.com 🔴 MBYB Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/backyard... 🔴Backyard Birder's AMAZON shop: https://www.amazon.com/shop/mybackyar... As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. A small portion of each sale goes toward supporting the Backyard without increasing costs to you.