White-breasted Nuthatch with a sunflower seed

Bathing Beauties: Chickadee, Nuthatch, Titmouse

 

On Saturday we had more than the usual number of birds visiting our backyard water feature.  They are so entertaining, and it really delights us.  However, we promise to leave our backyard when the fall migration picks up, so hopefully we'll have more varied photographs to entertain our blog visitors. We've been meaning to go to Cape May, Brigantine, the Meadowlands, maybe even Dauphin Island, so check back soon to see what we encounter.

Summer Backyard Birds in New Jersey

Robin

Nuthatch

Chickadee

One very hot day, we caught this robin taking a bath in our waterfall.

The nuthatches have been very active on the tree trunks but rarely are found on the ground.

We've had quite a few chickadees. They also enjoy the waterfall, but they have also been coming to the tree closest to our deck.

White Breasted Nuthatch

 

White-breasted Nuthatch

Backyard Birds: Yellow Bellied Sapsucker and White-breasted Nuthatch

Yellow Bellied Sapsucker

White-breasted Nuthatch

These birds are more frequent visitors to our yard with the cooler weather.

Backyard Nuthatch

 

With the fall migration, the White-breasted Nuthatches have become common in our yard. The brown creeper is not far behind.

A visit to Rutgers Gardens

Here are some bird photos we took at Rutgers Gardens off Ryders Lane on Rutgers Cook Campus. There were more flowers than birds this morning, but we are always happy to see a waxwing.

Hummingbird

Cedar Waxwing

White-breasted Nuthatch

White-breasted Nuthatch

 

Quite the acrobats, the nuthatches are.

White-breasted Nuthatch Hiding a Seed

The Stokes Field Guide to Birds says this about the Nuthatch. "Nuthatches are best known for their habit of storing food in bark crevices and their ability to move head first down trees enabling them to find food that "right-side up" birds like Woodpeckers might miss." That's exactly what we caught him doing in these pictures.

Winter Birds at the Bird Bath

White-breasted Nuthatch

Northern Mockingbird

Here's are photos of some winter birds having a drink at our new heated bird bath.

White-breasted Nuthatch

We like nuthatches.

Nuthatch

The white-breasted nutcatches were common visitors last winter but we didn't see any this spring. A few have just returned to the area.

White-breasted Nuthatch