Blue Jay Resistant Bird Feeder - And Squirrels To!

Blue Jay Resistant Bird Feeder - And Squirrels To!


Keep squirrels and Blue Jays out of your bird feeder with the Woodlink Absolute Squirrel Resistant Bird Feeder Model 7533. I previously tested this feeder for squirrel resistance and now have adjusted it to exclude Blue Jays. Jays are extremely smart and one of my favorite birds but I wanted a feeder for just the Cardinals and Painted Buntings to enjoy - I am pleased - my results are in the video.
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Blue Jay Resistant Bird Feeder - And Squirrels To!

Squirrel Freaked Out By Camera - Looking For New Territory

Squirrel Freaked Out By Camera - Looking For New Territory


A new young squirrel checks out the Backyard territory for the first time and is totally freaked out by the feeder camera and the new environment. The resident Backyard Squirrels are total social media addicts and regularly ham it up for the camera. This new squirrel looks like a young male and is trying to find a new territory to move into from the conservation area behind the Backyard. I suspect squirrel populations are rising and they need to spread out. Over time this new squirrel may be accepted or move on. The Blue Jays are so smart I think they can tell which squirrels are "residents" and which aren't as they make a little pass at this guy.
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Squirrel Freaked Out By Camera - Looking For New Territory

Brave Lizard Joins Birds at Feeder

Brave Lizard Joins Birds at Feeder

A little Brown Anole Lizard comes out in the open to feed on the bird feeder platform and feeds side by side with a Painted Bunting. I had mixed a few dried meal worms in with the finch seed mix never imagining it would attract a lizard as lizards are a favorite food of the many Blue Jays in the yard and Grackles and Mockingbirds as well. One of the most unusual things I've seen in years of bird feeding. The lizard does not run when the Bunting arrives and must know this bird is no serious threat from experience, but just seconds later the Blue Jays move in and finish off the meal worms in typical ravenous fashion.
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Brave Lizard Joins Birds at Feeder

Wood Thrush Song and bonus Chipmunk!

Wood Thrush


Wood Thrush makes an unexpected appearance on a log. Their melodious song echoes through the deep forest through spring and summer, but they are seldom seen. In fact, this is my first fleeting capture of a Wood Thrush and it was by accident on a camera trap for a Chipmunk - footage of the Chipmunk is included as a bonus.
Wood Thrushes are similar in appearance to Brown Thrashers, but are smaller and have big dots on their breast rather than the streaks of the Thrasher.
Filmed in the Great Smoky Mountains in September.
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Wood Thrush

Blue Jays Stuff Their Crops and Hoard Peanuts Like Flying Chipmunks

Blue Jays Stuff Their Crops and Hoard Peanuts Like Flying Chipmunks


Blue Jays cram as many shelled peanuts as possible in their crop - an expandable pouch in their esophagus - and fly away to hide them in nooks and crannies in the woods behind the backyard. They will eat them later. Much fun is made of Chipmunks that stuff their cheek pouches with nuts and scurry away to cache and hoard them for later, but Blue Jays are the flying version of a Chipmunk. Watch as one particularly glutinous Jays chases away the others and manages to get 9 or 10 peanuts in its crop and beak. Four or five is the normal. Also note a hapless ant trying to steal away with a small piece of a peanut - it almost makes it. And the squirrels in the background oblivious to the pile of nuts as the Blue Jays stock up.
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Blue Jays Stuff Their Crops and Hoard Peanuts Like Flying Chipmunks

Short Billed Dowitcher, Raccoon and Kingfisher - Marsh Scenes

Short Billed Dowitcher, Raccoon and Kingfisher - Marsh Scenes

 Short Billed Dowitcher, Raccoon and Kingfisher - Marsh Scenes A relaxing slice of Florida Marsh life with Short-Billed Dowitchers, and Raccoon passing and a Kingfisher sitting and fishing.
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Short Billed Dowitcher, Raccoon and Kingfisher - Marsh Scenes

Blue Jay Party

Blue Jay Party



A Party of about 15 Blue Jays is ready for breakfast in the Backyard. My plan is to eventually hand feed all of them in one morning session. Did you know the name for a group of Blue Jays is not flock, but either party or band. Personally I like "Band of Blue Jays". Stay tuned for progress reports! The lighting is not good at this time of day when they all tend to gather - I will try some external lighting in future tries.
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Blue Jay Party

Pregnant Squirrel Craves Peanuts

Momma Squirrel is Pregnant and Craving Peanuts


Mother Gray Squirrel is very pregnant and has a serious shelled Peanut craving. She is the Matriarch of the squirrel family. Always my favorite squirrel to patiently hand feed I have to be careful because she wants her peanut now, and has little patience. She'll take her peanuts with or without my finger attached! She looks like she is due very soon and has made her nest deep in the thicket behind the Backyard. More squirrel kittens on the way!
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Momma Squirrel is Pregnant and Craving Peanuts

Squirrels Love Suet - Eaten Upside Down or Right-Side Up!

Squirrels Love Suet - Eaten Upside Down or Right-Side Up!

Gray Squirrel spends the day pretty much hanging upside down eating suet meant for Woodpeckers in Florida. I have given up on suet in the Smoky Mountains due to constant bear activity in warmer weather. Here in Florida I try every year in winter as we have four species of woodpecker. So I need to raise the game a bit. Squirrels can hang upside down til the cows come home.
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Squirrels Love Suet - Eaten Upside Down or Right-Side Up!

Little Furry Friends: Red Squirrel, Gray Squirrel, Chipmunk and Rabbit

Little Furry Friends Red Squirrel, Gray Squirrel, Chipmunk and Rabbit


Red Squirrel, Gray Squirrel, Chipmunk and Rabbit all dine together in a pouring rain and react to loud Thunder. The rabbit is the calm one. It is unusual for the three squirrel species of Backyard North to be hanging out together, must be the weather.
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Little Furry Friends  Red Squirrel, Gray Squirrel, Chipmunk and Rabbit