Post your yard and pond visitors

[JBtheExplorer]

European Goldfinches have been showing up every day.

 

[KDubU]

Wow those are pretty, we do not get those here or at least I have not seen one yet and I watch the birds daily at out feeders.

Since our pond has been up and running for three short weeks we have had the following visitors we have never seen before:

- Male and female mallard took a dip and ate some grass around the pond.
- Scarlet Tanager

We have now had many bird taking bath including Robins, Catbirds, Goldfinches, Orioles and Cardinals. No photos though because I never have our camera close by.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Wow those are pretty, we do not get those here or at least I have not seen one yet and I watch the birds daily at out feeders.

Currently, they are only in a few specific areas in the U.S.
The most known area is around Chicago (Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan). I believe I've read that they're also in the New York/New Jersey area.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Chipmunk having breakfast on the woodpile.

 

[Lisak1]

Chipmunk having breakfast on the woodpile.
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Oh my gosh. Why do they have to be so stinkin' cute?? The little marauders!

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Oh my gosh. Why do they have to be so stinkin' cute?? The little marauders!

I love em. It seems like their population has gone up around here in recent years. They love running through the pond area. They'll stop and drink in the bog and run across the rocks along the pond and out the fence. They like planting sunflowers around the pond, too.

 

[Lisak1]

They like planting sunflowers around the pond, too.

They are my little garden "helpers" . We have different ideas about where things should grow and unfortunately they usually win, the little devils!

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Had a female Monarch visiting this morning. She was drinking nectar and laying eggs.

 

[Lisak1]

Ahhh! We had our first monarch yesterday afternoon! Such a welcome sight!

 

[MajorDan]

Morning visitor and my hot coffee.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

A Red Admiral has been in the rain garden for awhile. They love Liatris.

 

[MajorDan]

Two tree frogs doing the tango in my pond this morning. And I thought all that croaking last night was about who got the biggest bug.

 

[addy1]

One of our little babies, living in my flowers/weeds. Caught it on the cam just getting up for the morning

 

[j.w]

I had to put my arm out to stop traffic the other day for a mama deer and her two babies crossing the road. They made it!

 

[addy1]

530am a bit dark, the baby moving so fast it is blurred a bit, but down there playing!

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Last week, I missed out on photographing a Snowberry Clearwing. This morning, a Hummingbird Clearwing was in the same spot.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Butterfly visitors in the rain garden.

Painted Lady

Red Admiral

Red-spotted Purple

 

[KDubU]

Great pics! @JBtheExplorer, do you wear your camera on you?? We have a lot of different wildlife around us but I seem to rarely have my camera ready and only my iPhone. While the latter takes okay pics, I much prefer the DLSR. So how do you do it?

 

[addy1]

I caught this heron bailing out of the pond. i had gone over to open the blinds. Almost thought I would need to save it from the net. But it wiggled through.
First pictures off the dvr recording, second group out of our windows with a lot of reflection on them.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Great pics! @JBtheExplorer, do you wear your camera on you??

Most of the time, yes. Photography is my biggest hobby, so if I go out to explore my pond and native gardens, I almost always grab my camera. Especially this time of year, because there's always something going on. I've got an explosion of blooms happening, so my yard has been filled with life the last few weeks.