Mike’s Photo Blog: Waterfall Birds

Mid morning I looked out of the full glass door to the left of my computer desk just as a cracking Baltimore Oriole flew in to have a bathe in the waterfall stream. I waited until about 3pm when the light was better and got set up in the chair blind. It was about 82f (27C) air temperature and sitting in the blind about 122f I reckon. Damn, it was hot. The first bathers were the Song Sparrows, they were having a good old splash. The majority of bathers were the Grackles followed by the Robins. The Oriole came back and the Catbird only managed a drink before a squadron of Grackles scared it off. Around 4pm it went very quiet and I gave up around 4:30 to feed the beasties. As we had a Hoageez hoagie for lunch I made myself beans on toast to fill me up a bit because I cant eat after midnight due to Carpal Tunnel surgery in the morning. I went back out for a while until the light started fading. As I was packing up there were 4 Catbirds taking turns to bathe and then display to the lady catbirds, I left them to it.