Where Did You Guys Come From, and Why are you In my Garage? :)

I knew it was a matter of time before this happened. We keep our garage door open a lot in the Spring time, and sure enough a few wanderers found their way in. Two different birds within the same week.

FIRST INTRUDER: 05-12-12 - THE HUMMINGBIRD

SECOND INTRUDER: 05-25-12 - THE DOWNY WOODPECKER

Both I believe made it out alive, but what a PAIN to get them out. The Hummingbird was the worst. The more I tried to help it out the more it freaked out. It worked better to open both doors and wait it out. Both made it out on their own. I was smart enough to lock up my cats, these things would not have had a chance in hell if my cats where out there. The garage is their territory! 

First Hummingbird of the Season!

I have been patiently waiting for hummingbirds to show up,and today I finally spotted one! I can not tell you how excited I am to see them. I had my feeder up early this year, but I had just refreshed it this morning. I got a beautiful shot too :) Check out this hummingbird coming in for a snack. 

Check out the RED THROATED below. Oh Woowzers! And yes, he is eating the orange from the Oriole feeder. This lil cutie is mucho confused!

I believe these are 3 different species of Hummingbirds here, all in the same day! All taken from my front kitchen window, through glass. I think I am getting better at this camera thingy.

Hummingbird Feeders

Today I added Humming Bird feeders to the new window garden area. This blog IS called BIRDEES and BLOOMS, so it's reasonable to say I need to start posting some bird stuff. Let's try and gets some birds in this yard. I figured Hummingbirds would be fairly easy to pull in, and my research says this area is loaded with them. I never seen one in my area of NY, so I'm quite excited at the possibility of seeing them here. Now that I have these awesome flowers every where I'm seriously starting to take a major interest in birds. I'm a novice, but with some research on the internet I have started a game plan for getting some birds to come hang out with us in our lovely new garden area. My cats should just LOVE that, lol. 

I am going to apologize for my bad photography skills here again. IX-NAY on the vertical pictures and the cheesey ball frame!!! Hopefully the Hummingbirds forgive me and come for some yummy food anyway.

Bring on the Hummingbirds...