Recent Camera Captures

 The Christmas gift camera feeder continues to be a hit attracting a variety of birds but also an unwelcome squirrel (keep reading). This post features some of the recent activity with 20-second video clips.

Yellow-rumped Warbler 
(aka butter Butt for the splash of yellow it shows from behind on its behind lol)

Tufted Titmouse
(easily recognizable for its "jaunty crest of gray feathers, big black eyes and rust-colored flanks" per the above website)

Ruby-crowned Kinglet
(one of North America's smallest songbirds)

Carolina Chickadee 
("ever perky, smartly dressed in black and white"- see the above site for how the Carolina Checkadee's call is slightly different than that of the Black-capped Chickadee)

Carolina Wren
(the state bird of South Carolina)

Brown-headed Cowbirds (male and female)

(not the most popular birds on the block because they like to lay their eggs in the nests of other birds)

 Chipping Sparrow…briefly then a female Baltimore Oriole…then a male Oriole 

(A Chipping Sparrow has a chestnut cap, white eyebrow, black eyeliner)

Watch as a Yellow-rumped Warbler (YRW for short) enjoys the food until…

I like how this female Baltimore Oriole is checking out everything. No rush, no hurry. 

("one of the most brilliantly colored songbirds in the East, flaming orange and black, sharing the heraldic colors of 17th-century Lord Baltimore" who is credited with founding Baltimore, Maryland)

This is a male Oriole who is a regular patron of my grape jelly. I call him Bandy Randy because of the different colored tracking bands on each leg. 

The sunlight on BR (Bandy Randy) is really good in this clip. 

Rainy Days! The jelly is liquified.

I continue to do battle with pesky squirrels Eastern Gray Squirrels to be specific. Despite the barbed wire surrounding the pole, this one still got up to the food. To counter this annoyance, I moved the round baffle from one feeder system to the other. 

I have on order from Amazon another of the cone-shaped baffles to protect the other feeder.

Below you see the camera doing its job, recording me as I took the photo on the left.