It must be terribly hard for those little guys! And explaining why they need to must just lead to more tears. You’ve got to remember to tell them the story when they get older. What a fabulous memory of their childhood…I’m sure they’ll get a big laugh out of it.
When my kiddos were little, I had to get double of everything or else there would be meltdowns.
Beautiful captures of the bickering birdies Cindy. Such gorgeous colors. This again shows us how intelligent birds are and how like humans they can be, which much of the recent research and neurological studies ate revealing.
There’s your particular magic again, birds allowing you to be like kin. A story told by birds, transposed by you. Round here it’s mostly big black crows. Gulls and sparse eagles keep their distance.
Thing about birds, much as they interest, amuse – for certain wouldn’t want to be one of them. Every one who finds a nice scrap of food is soon dogged by the rest waiting for the first to accidentally drop, else just outright steal the morsel away for themselves, who become next in line. Someone said, true, survival itself ain’t pretty. (makes me re-wonder – what about us?) Thanks Cindy for the front-row view.
This reminds me of the melee for scarce taxis at the airport in Buenos Aires! Smiling people turned into vicious competitors in no time flat. Disconcerting დ
Cindy, last week I saw a redheaded woodpecker in our big oak tree in the back yard.
Such a long time since I’d seen one – he was tap, tap, tapping away while I took a break on our screened porch! I thought of you immediately and think I enjoyed the time with him with you, too.
Thank you for all your birdies!
So happy you spent time with the woodpecker. Birds are excellent judges of character. They only pick trust worthy people to hang out with. So consider yourself trusted! დ
It is lovely to hear the bird song even if they are bickering Cindy. I do think they talk to each other. I often try to whistle back to them. My younger son would call to the Turtledoves and they would fly to him.
Leslie
Aww…. So sweet about your son. I do the same thing. I always call back to birds. The great horned owls usually engage in long converstations with me. They are chatty! დ
Mockingbirds can definitely be attitudinal! I have loved them since I was a kid, terrified by a rattlesnake, that I watched them dispatch with amazing skill დ
Must have been so wonderful to be able to watch this piece of avian theatre!
Did you get anything sorted with your blog? I got the needed kick up the pants from you reading about your story, and have since changed to a WP theme that has not been retired. It was easier than I thought it would be. The Happiness Engineers will walk you through it in online chat.
Alison
Brilliant photos Cindy as always… I have seen quite a bit of bickering going on at the feeders between starlings and sparrows particularly… at this time of year there is quite a bit of territorial and romantic spats… the things you see through a kitchen window.. ♥
The birds are fascinating right now feeding babies and the beautiful nests they’ve made and houses they have chosen to create families it.. it’s absolutely fascinating!
What a lovely variety. Of three… I lost a goard birdhouse… and of the two left I think only one is being occupied by a house wren. But there’s probably a bunch of nests in trees I can’t see. Cheers to all the birds everywhere!
I think some have started late or are going for a second brood here as I saw one little birdie gathering material just the other day! 😀
Yes, I could help. I need to know where you are, so I can determine what birds you are trying to attract? Also how urban is your domicile? And how much of a garden do you have?
The house is in Cuernavaca, south of Mexico city. Semi-urban, large houses with large gardens all around. Our garden is probably 500 sq meters…(Lemme check sq ft, I never know.) 5,000 sq ft and a bit more. Lots of trees. There are sparrows, warblers, birds which I don’t know with a yellow belly and a black head… Several kinds really. We also have a ‘possum and a squirrel… 😉 (There’s also a small swimming pool which atracts the birds for water… Voilà…)
I would pay a kings ransom to have those bickering birdies visit here, …they’re absolutely fantastic Cindy, …I feed our li’l visitors every morning, Blue Tits, Blackbirds, Magpies, Robins, ..but none as brightly coloured as your photos, …Still, I enjoy their visits, and it’s a privilege to see them, our garden visitors, …their antics light up the day, …thank you for sharing your photos, …👏
Wild birds are simply amazing to live with. They get to know you. I envy your magpies. I find them incredibly interactive and intelligent. I only see them on trips. They have given me gifts, even though they barely know me. 🙂 I photographed them forever being stalked by fox kits in a London park, out of a tiny opening in my hotel window. The magpies had such obvious fun leading the kits on a fruitless chase. Even the haughty hawks know you if you live with them. When I come back from any trip, and drive down our steep driveway, they, without fail, everytime, fly over as if to say, “About time you came back you creature we barely tolerate!” 🙂
What a fabulous show it is, Cindy! I’m not a birder, but I do love watching the birds in my yard too. I just don’t get the great photos that you do. Have a good week!
Beautiful birds photos, love the colors.
Happy you Tangie & thank you! დ
Very colorful group. 👍😍
In both feathers and cheeps! 😉
They have a lot to say. Beautiful photos.
Thanks much Timothy & cheers! დ
They certainly do!!!
I know people who are like this….. 😉
Love those!
So happy you do & thank you Pit! დ
They are so cute when they bicker! ❤️
They are and incredibly fun to watch! დ
Just like humans!
Exactly! 😉
They must be quite entertaining to watch!
They are hilarious! When the mockingbirds and orioles get wound up, it is quite a show! 😉
I’d love to see that!
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Great captures Cindy! They do like to take the spotlight when they can 😊
They certainly do! Like Hollywood celebrities!! 😉 😉
I love your photographic stories, Cindy. Beautiful and smile-inducing. 🙂
Visa versa 2UX2 Tracy for your posts and comments! დ
Amazing to see all these beauties together! Gorgeous shots, Cindy!
Thanks much Donna & happy you enjoyed დ
I bet they’re noisy! But entertaining.
Exactly so, and they go to bed when the sun sets, unlike humans! 😉
The woodpecker looks stunned by the whole drama! Wonder what the bickering is about.
Yes, the woodpecker always looked stunned!!! I think they bicker over sharing, just like my twin 4 year old grandsons! 😉
It must be a sibling thing to bicker!
Twin 4 year old boys must bicker a lot and growing up together must get into each other’s toys a lot.
The word ‘share’ makes them break into tears! დ დ
It must be terribly hard for those little guys! And explaining why they need to must just lead to more tears. You’ve got to remember to tell them the story when they get older. What a fabulous memory of their childhood…I’m sure they’ll get a big laugh out of it.
When my kiddos were little, I had to get double of everything or else there would be meltdowns.
Precious time and it flies!
Arguing children. Heh.
Or their parents! 😉
Exactly.
Drama at the Holler! More exciting than a telenovela 😆😍
Laughing…..More melodic too! 😉
They want it all to themeselves.
They certainly do…. We all know people like this too! 😉
They’re so beautiful the bickering is easily foirgiven Cindy. Huge Hugs.
Indeed. Plus their bicker quite musically! 😉
What a busy tree! Great pictures. Maggie
The tree probably wishes they would go tweet up another trunk! 😉
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Beautiful captures of the bickering birdies Cindy. Such gorgeous colors. This again shows us how intelligent birds are and how like humans they can be, which much of the recent research and neurological studies ate revealing.
Precisely. We now know ‘bird brained’ means remarkably intelligent unlike the people who used the term disparagingly დ
What fantastic pictures, Cindy! I would love to watch these bickering birdies. Thanks for sharing this beautiful photo- story. 🙂
You are so welcome Lynette. I am pleased you enjoyed my friend & Happy Sunday! დ
These are wonderful photos, Cindy, just like always.
Aww…. Thank you very much & cheers to you დ
No wonder, why time goes by, with all this entertainment.
Yes indeed! Hilarious to watch დ
Superbes clichés !!!
Merci beaucoup mon Ami! დ
Beautifully captured
Thank you Derrick & cheers my friend დ
Fabulous plumage and wonderful photos
Aww… So appreciated Sheree. Thank you & cheers დ
You know them well kind lady, you speak their language…but much more serene of course 🤣❤️🙏
They definitely enjoy scolding me too! 😉 😉
Beautiful series and beautiful birds.
So appreciated. Thank you very much დ
What a colourful crew!
And chatty too! 😉
There’s your particular magic again, birds allowing you to be like kin. A story told by birds, transposed by you. Round here it’s mostly big black crows. Gulls and sparse eagles keep their distance.
Thing about birds, much as they interest, amuse – for certain wouldn’t want to be one of them. Every one who finds a nice scrap of food is soon dogged by the rest waiting for the first to accidentally drop, else just outright steal the morsel away for themselves, who become next in line. Someone said, true, survival itself ain’t pretty. (makes me re-wonder – what about us?) Thanks Cindy for the front-row view.
This reminds me of the melee for scarce taxis at the airport in Buenos Aires! Smiling people turned into vicious competitors in no time flat. Disconcerting დ
these birds are adorable, great catch.. the blue is such a different look to our blue jays up here. same family?
Yes same family. Ours are more scrubby and yours, more refined! 😉
You must put out a nice buffet. 😉 Great photos, Cindy!
I am a connoisseur of Welchs grape jelly! 😉
You were in the right place at the right time!
As luck would have it! დ
They do seem to find a lot to eat there! Beautiful photos!
Merci beaucoup mon Ami Ute! დ
Remarkable captures of these bickering beauties, Cindy! Great job!!
Thank you Indira. So appreciated დ
Too funny!! 🙂 And what a show it is. 🙂 LOL
They are highly entertaining! დ
Hi Cindy! The birds certainly are very active right now! Lots of bickering every day.
Yes! It’s like watching a soap opera დ
This made me chuckle 🙂
Smiling… I’m glad დ
Gorgeous photos, Cindy! The birdies that visit our balcony squabble and fight over the food we give them. Very entertaining to watch! 💖
Yes, they are hilarious to watch! Happy you are able to do this დ
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Cindy, last week I saw a redheaded woodpecker in our big oak tree in the back yard.
Such a long time since I’d seen one – he was tap, tap, tapping away while I took a break on our screened porch! I thought of you immediately and think I enjoyed the time with him with you, too.
Thank you for all your birdies!
So happy you spent time with the woodpecker. Birds are excellent judges of character. They only pick trust worthy people to hang out with. So consider yourself trusted! დ
So cool, Cindy! I’ll embrace that.
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So so lovely, Cindy.
Thank you very much დ
It is lovely to hear the bird song even if they are bickering Cindy. I do think they talk to each other. I often try to whistle back to them. My younger son would call to the Turtledoves and they would fly to him.
Leslie
Aww…. So sweet about your son. I do the same thing. I always call back to birds. The great horned owls usually engage in long converstations with me. They are chatty! დ
Thank you for these gorgeous (and bickering) birds!
You are most welcome Jennie. They are hilarious! დ
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I love the show, thank you for sharing, Cindy
So pleased you do Milena & thanks much! დ
Lovely shots! What bickering beauties!
Thank you. ‘Bickering Beauties’ would have been a great title for this post! დ
Fun post, great photos – Thanks!
You are so welcome & Happy Sunday June დ
Yep, they are bickering. 🙂
Bickersons! 😉
I love your captioning! Some great captures. 🙂
So happy you enjoyed Julie & thanks so much! დ
This Bird Couple are so happy together . Great images Cindy 👌
Anita
Grazie mille Anita! დ
Amazing and beautiful birds Cindy. As always thanks for sharing the beautiful life on this planet!
Thank you more Steve for your very kind appreciation & cheers my friend დ
We have four feeders and our birds still bicker!
Laughing…. Sounds so familiar! 😉
Wow! Love that you have four different birds in one shot! Beautiful!
The Holler is definitely for the birds! 😉
Hahaha! Love that! 🕊️🐦🦢🐤🦅🦆
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I love these colourful birds. I guess they need a referee to settle their problem, just like humans, right? 🙂
Yes! Although, they are far less violent than humans. I wish humans would learn from them and confine our disagreements to words! დ
Beauties!
They are indeed, noisy, but beautiful! 😉
They can certainly fuss at each other when they want the same space … kinda ignoring the raptor circling overhead.🦅🦅🦅
Laughing….So true! 😉
Mockingbirds can be very fussy with other birds/creatures or humans. Good closeups of the conversations.
Mockingbirds can definitely be attitudinal! I have loved them since I was a kid, terrified by a rattlesnake, that I watched them dispatch with amazing skill დ
Some species just have a lot to say, don’t they? Our Cardinals are like that, especially early in the morning!
I have never heard cardinals doing this. I will listen carefully when I am back in Hawaii! დ
I have often wondered if the is some kind of a Myers’s-Briggs test for our winged friends.
They devised the test for humans because they were so puzzled by our odd behavior! 😉 😉
😂😂😂
A territorial dispute for sure, Cindy! Love the way other birds flew in to check out the debate.
Either that, or the grape jelly!!! 😉 😉
Such lovely and colorful birdies! <3
Have a fine new week and stay safe, dear Cindy!
Vielen dank mein leiber Freund Martha! დ
These shots are GOLD
Ahh…. Thank you very much & cheers! დ
That spiky plant would keep predators away, lovely photos
Yes, but orioles love palm trees and weave their nests from the palm strings and hang the nests from branches with palm strings დ
Just wonder in so many colors! Bravo, dear Cindy!
They are QT’s aren’t they! Happy you enjoyed & thank you დ
What a riot! Love this, Cindy!
Your shots are fantastic! ❦❦
Thank you Resa & cheers! დ
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Must have been so wonderful to be able to watch this piece of avian theatre!
Did you get anything sorted with your blog? I got the needed kick up the pants from you reading about your story, and have since changed to a WP theme that has not been retired. It was easier than I thought it would be. The Happiness Engineers will walk you through it in online chat.
Alison
I am fiddling with it. I don’t have to change the theme which is a relief as I like mine. I will head over to see yours now…. დ
Wow! Four birds in one shot. Magnificent.
They are lookers aren’t they!! Thank you my friend & cheers 😉 😉
Waouh ! 💙💙💙🐦
Smiling დდ
Really lovely.
Thank you very much Marie & cheers დ
Lovely capture!
Thank you Warren დ
May the Orioles and Mockingbirds tweet each other better! ˎ₍•ʚ•₎ˏ💕🌈
Laughing…. Cheers to you! დდ
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Brilliant photos Cindy as always… I have seen quite a bit of bickering going on at the feeders between starlings and sparrows particularly… at this time of year there is quite a bit of territorial and romantic spats… the things you see through a kitchen window.. ♥
Quite entertaining to watch as long as they remain civil! 😉
Quite ♥
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Splendidi esemplari di volatili. Primi piani stupendi.
Un saluto,silvia
Grazie mille Silvia დ
Sempre specialissime pagine fotografiche. Cari saluti,silvia
Sei molto gentile Silvia. Grazie mio caro amica e abbi cura di te დ
A beautiful show it is, Cindy. ❤️
Happy you enjoyed the drama Mary & thank you დ
What fantastic close-up shots. Well done! Fun seeing the birds go at it.
So appreciated! Thank you Alisen & cheers! დ
Lovely birds! They do like to argue. 🙂
Just like some people! 😉
Wish they’d all get along!
Smiling… At least they are not violent like too many people. დ
Yes.
The birds are fascinating right now feeding babies and the beautiful nests they’ve made and houses they have chosen to create families it.. it’s absolutely fascinating!
We are in complete agreement Kerri. Observing nesting bird families is a total Zen experience. Enjoy დ
What a lovely variety. Of three… I lost a goard birdhouse… and of the two left I think only one is being occupied by a house wren. But there’s probably a bunch of nests in trees I can’t see. Cheers to all the birds everywhere!
I think some have started late or are going for a second brood here as I saw one little birdie gathering material just the other day! 😀
What fun! They do have multiple broods when conditions encourage it. Enjoy დ
I’m fairly certain that robins have at least two, not really sure about the others.
Makes me smile. That you watch over them, and care about them Jules.
I know some folks say you shouldn’t feed the birdies in the summer when they can ‘catch’ their own. But I think we ‘both’ benefit 😀
Nice. As usual. Question: do you use birdfeeders in your garden? We’ve tried it here. No dice. We must be doing something wrong…
Yes. I use feeders. I wonder why your are not working….. დ
I don’t know, we’ve tried several different spots. It could be the food? Would you have any recommendation? A special type of seeds?
Yes, I could help. I need to know where you are, so I can determine what birds you are trying to attract? Also how urban is your domicile? And how much of a garden do you have?
The house is in Cuernavaca, south of Mexico city. Semi-urban, large houses with large gardens all around. Our garden is probably 500 sq meters…(Lemme check sq ft, I never know.) 5,000 sq ft and a bit more. Lots of trees. There are sparrows, warblers, birds which I don’t know with a yellow belly and a black head… Several kinds really. We also have a ‘possum and a squirrel… 😉 (There’s also a small swimming pool which atracts the birds for water… Voilà…)
I would pay a kings ransom to have those bickering birdies visit here, …they’re absolutely fantastic Cindy, …I feed our li’l visitors every morning, Blue Tits, Blackbirds, Magpies, Robins, ..but none as brightly coloured as your photos, …Still, I enjoy their visits, and it’s a privilege to see them, our garden visitors, …their antics light up the day, …thank you for sharing your photos, …👏
Wild birds are simply amazing to live with. They get to know you. I envy your magpies. I find them incredibly interactive and intelligent. I only see them on trips. They have given me gifts, even though they barely know me. 🙂 I photographed them forever being stalked by fox kits in a London park, out of a tiny opening in my hotel window. The magpies had such obvious fun leading the kits on a fruitless chase. Even the haughty hawks know you if you live with them. When I come back from any trip, and drive down our steep driveway, they, without fail, everytime, fly over as if to say, “About time you came back you creature we barely tolerate!” 🙂
What a fabulous show it is, Cindy! I’m not a birder, but I do love watching the birds in my yard too. I just don’t get the great photos that you do. Have a good week!
What a variety of birds you get at the “Holler.” Love their colors and hearing about their interactions.