Christmas Birds

[Bill Anderson]

I spent Christmas with my parents and extended family in Vancouver,WA. This female Anna's hummer constantly flew between my parents' feeder and a neighbor's tree on Christmas day.


A second hummer visited the feeder. I could hear the first hummer getting quite agitated in the background.



We were just about ready to leave for home the day after Christmas when I saw something unusual in one of my parents' trees. I went back to the car and grabbed my camera, returned to the tree and found a western scrub jay on the fence. They are quite pretty, but we don't get them up where I live.


It buried the piece of corn in the grass.

 

[Terry O]

Cool to see the scrub jay, Bill. Seems like it should have a much nicer sounding name!

 

[Bill Anderson]

We had them in Monterey, where I would throw peanuts out for them. They were quite aggressive and would chase off the squirrels and Steller's jay to get a peanut. I once got one to hop through the open sliding glass door to the back deck and come about five feet into the house to retrieve a peanut.

 

[Christine]

I always love the Hummers.... i even put up a heat lamp for them this winter.. getting a few but one at a time....

 

[Tony S]

It's good to see birds in blue, the only ones around here are the stellars jays. Christmas day when I was at the parents I got the eagles, but I did not spend any time out at their feeders where they have at least a dozen hummingbirds dive bombing anything that moves near the feeder. Seems to be a really good fall/winter for hummingbirds to hang around this year.