Saturday 27 May 2023

Saturday's Critters

 The cats have been having some fun indoors. With the nice weather they can go out in the Muskoka Room. Nutmeg, the smaller cat, was in the smaller upper deck. Cinnamon gave up and slept in the middle deck. 

 

They miss watching bird TV, i.e., the bird feeders, but Bear has been on the move. 

Phoebe has 3 eggs in the blue bird nest box.



Spider set off the motion detector! Turn the sound down...

Spider man from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.

🐣 Under the Deck

 The 🐣ROBINS are doing well.

 

Robin nest from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.

May 23 in the 🐣PHOEBE nest. Cowbird hatched: 

Cowbird in phoebe nest from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.

The cowbird lays in other bird nests. It is against the Federal Migratory Birds Act to interfere in this situation. It is a treaty between the US and Canada in 1916. This gave us the Migratory Birds Act Convention. 

Birds protected under the Migratory Birds Convention Act

 I'll let nature take its course. The phoebes finally hatched. There were 4 phoebe eggs.

phoebe nest from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.

🦆Wood ducks

It is my first year to not have any ducks nesting on the frogpond. The water went down enough that I could peek in. I was surprised. I'd had the trailcam focussed on it for a month. It just doesn't pick up the birds. Reaching in, I felt a smushed something. Then, a cold egg. There were about 9 of them. I'll need to grab my ladder and clean it all out. So sad. The one on the left, (box #3) has been empty. This is a spring photo, the plants have been growing, trees leafing out.
boxes #2 and #3



May 26, cold eggs at the pond, with one smushed. I don't know what happened.
 

wood duck box #2 from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.

Flickers: They like the arbor, the dead elm a few metres away holds their nest. She likes to peek out at me!

Flicker from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.

Thanks to Eileen for hosting. Saturday's Critters # 493

16 comments:

eileeninmd said...

Hello,
I think we had a bear move through our yard, my hummingbird feeders were apart on the ground and a metal trash can was knock over with the old bird feeders all over the ground. Love your baby bird videos and the flicker. Cute kitties. Thank you for linking up and sharing your post. Take care, have a great weekend. PS, thank you for leaving me a comment.

Tom said...

...your place is filled with new life.

Yamini MacLean said...

Hari Om
Shame about the ducks... but as you say, nature and its course... YAM xx

Anvilcloud said...

You began with cats, which is appropriate for Caturday.

Karen said...

My phoebe has finally started nest building above the porch.

RedPat said...

Too bad about the Wood Duck nest. I wonder if they had an invader?

Elephant's Child said...

Love your critters, though I am sorry about the wood ducks.

Barbara Rogers said...

Good work on hand held camera for the flicker, enlarged and all. Tough job that. So glad a couple of nests have hatchlings.

Divers and Sundry said...

Big spider! Odd about the ducks. I wonder what happened... I remain conflicted about cowbirds...

~Lavender Dreamer~ said...

We saw some egg shells on our hike today and hope the birds hatched. Love seeing the Flicker!

Red said...

Flickers are very attractive birds.

William Kendall said...

The cats are darlings.

Bleubeard and Elizabeth said...

The noise from the spider was jarring, even though I had turned my volume down before I played it.

It's good to see new life in the form of baby birds.

KB said...

Love the baby bird video ❤

Breathtaking said...

Hello :=) I hope the bluebird eggs hatch safely and the chicks do well. They are such beautiful birds. Well, I hope the other chicks also do well, but bluebirds are a favourite of mine.
All the best.

Linda said...

Finally nice weather here to get the veggies planted. Our baby robins have left the nest.