I had the opportunity to sit in the backyard with my Beast for a half hour over Thanksgiving. It was a cold morning and the birds were so grateful for my feeders and the bugs on my plants. Come and see who was visiting…

The Painted Buntings returned on schedule this year, in the first week of October. Now I get to sit in my home office and enjoy seeing four males at my feeder at once! I am very spoiled. :)

The Orange-crowned Warblers came back in mid-November. They love to hang out on the purple salvias, drinking nectar from the blooms. This one looks very determined to get a good drink!

Mieu! Mieu! The Gray Catbirds were out in full force. They meowed to me to remind me to go inside and feed Whiskey. You can see the new growth on plants that were heavily damaged by Hurricane Milton.

Mrs. Cardinal was grateful for the seeds on my coral honeysuckle vine. The vine died suddenly at the end of the year, but I left it because the birds love to perch in the branches.

Mr. Warbles was active hopping around in the lawn. Every once in a while, he’d pull a bug from the grass and eat it.

The Tufted Titmice are one of my dad’s favorite birds. They are so cute, swooping in to grab a seed from the feeder, then taking it to a bush to eat. They were definitely enjoying their Thanksgiving feast!

But there was one bird who liked to chase away all the other birds. A bully bird. She was small and ferocious and she chased off doves, red-wings, buntings, and house finches. Ready to laugh? The bully bird was the smallest bird!