Exceedingly Mundane

I noticed my first hummingbird at the feeder last week, and have been trying to get a picture of one ever since. Those little suckers are FAST! By the time I can pick up my camera (even if I have it close by), they fly away at supersonic speed. I had my camera out yesterday afternoon to take some pictures of some other birds, and noticed a hummingbird. I thought for sure I had gotten a picture, but the blame thing came out blurry. Darn, I will have to keep trying.

In the mean time, I got some other pictures of birds and things in my backyard. Once the rain stopped (we finally got about a 15 minute light rain shower), it looked like an aviary out there, birds of all kinds, tons of them. Plus, at one point, there were 4 squirrels playing in my backyard. Two were playing in the big tree and 2 were fighting on the fence for position at the squirrel feeder.

Click on the extended entry to see some pictures of my backyard wildlife 🙂

Here’s one of the hummingbird, it’s blurry but at least you can tell it is a hummingbird eating!

Here’s a picture of a Carolina Wren, we have them a lot on both feeders (suet and seed), but I haven’t been able to get a picture of one. Wrens have special meaning to me, that was my mom and grandmom’s name and is a middle name for my niece:

The suet feeder with a rare occurrence, a bird eating on both sides:

And some kind of big bird that is WAY too big for the suet feeder, it’s not a cardinal and I don’t think it’s a big sparrow… can anyone identify what this bird is?

And one of the squirrels ran along my deck railing, and came right by the window where I was standing, inside, taking pictures. So I got him up close and personal!

And finally, it was really busy on the regular seed feeder, here’s a shot of 5 birds on there at once: