Great video.

My sister and I were bird obsessed for a few years when we were around 5 to 8 years old. The cedar wax wing was our all time favorite bird. Thanks so much for your video. It brought back a lot of great memories of my sister who has since passed on. For those years we painted and drew and studied all kinds of birds but this particular bird still holds a special place in my heart!❤

Why they wanna interrupt the sounds of birds with that stupid music it makes no sense,why they don't go to a music show,helloooo.

Hey, the tree with flowers at 2:18 is a Jamaica Dogwood (Florida Fishpoison Tree), isn’t it? Cape May Warblers love fighting with each other over the flowers in spring migration.

Got a mustard female this winter that visits the yard. Last January and February, maybe the same one (?) would occasionally come to the fountain.

Buntings! Here’s a couple of interesting sites about these birds. This one is about a long-term banding study, with lots of good stuff: brdbander.blogspot.com/ An article about the molt sequence is here: sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/condor/v093n02/p0209-p0235.pdf

Also, buntings are still around. One green-backed, and one yellow-backed male, and three females come around each day. Two of the females are very green above, and strongly yellowish below. The third is a duller, grayish green all over. Had a third male for a few days in November. The female-type situation is confusing. A few times last week, and on Saturday, a bright green one came to the feeder that had a strong bluish tinge on the wings. It came by itself, except once with a male. The most around the feeder at the same time this year has been five female types and three males, in early November. Since then, it’s been usually three females (a few times since, five greens at the same time) and two males. Some of this female variation could be due to light angle, but I am not sure. Never boring, the buntings.

Thank you for another great video. Wild parrots are definitely a highlight of birding in our area! Thought I’d share a few notes about the parrots I’ve found in Miami since 1992, when I moved here. During the 1990s, I lived in The Grove and went to the University of Miami. Red-masked parakeets we’re common then, and still are now. Not sure how many Mitred were mixed in, especially with the ‘conure’ flocks at College in the early 1990s, but they are all over that area now. I started seeing the big masses of them around Dadeland around 2000. The most incredible parrot (and possibly bird, of any kind) spectacle in Miami was in 2014. One morning, after pulling an all-night bender, walked to my car, and saw them- this was near SW 83rd avenue and SW 11 street. The sky was filled with mitred parakeets. Several huge groups of them would merge, separate, and merge again, over and over. Each group contained hundreds of birds, definitely more than a thousand can be seen (and heard!) at the same time. I have a video of it. I didn’t pay as much attention as I should have to distinguish the yellow-chevroned/white winged parakeets. ‘Canary-winged’ as we called them, were very numerous around Bayshore Drive/Kennedy Park and the University, as well as around my place. They declined steadily up to the late 19990s, since then they been stable. As they leveled off, I started to pay closer attention, and noticed that the vast majority were (and still are) yellow-chevroned around there. Red-crowned parrots were numerous (with a few lilac-crowned) around campus. There was at least one red Lory, one dusky lorikeet, and an African Grey within the Amazona flock. I don’t recall seeing any of them for years around the college. A few times in 1992-3, a decent flock of yellow-headed parrots were in the Grove, also haven’t seen them since. Didn’t have any orange-winged parrots in my notes back then. By the early 2000s, I started seen large groups in South Miami, and they are widespread from there through the Gables, Grove and beyond today. Blue-and yellow macaws would pass over the house and visit the campus then, but are definitely more numerous around UM these days. I heard that they also have extended their range south to Cutler Bay and beyond in recent times. They did seen to practically disappear from the north Grove, especially since the 2010s. Have no mention of chestnut-fronted macaw anywhere before 2000, but since I see them in many places, including nesting in a few surprisingly urban locations. I lived in South Beach from 2004-9, and spent quite a bit of time there since the early 1990s there. In the early days I mostly saw monk parakeets, in all areas, just like today. The colony on Lincoln Road was active as far back as I can remember , so it’s been in around for more than 30 years. My notes mentioned ‘red-masked’ parakeets, and that’s it. Living there, I got a bigger handle of the place. From 2004, blue-crowned parakeets were common. White-eyed (stupid name, right!) were also present, especially around South Pointe. To me, white-eyed has increased, and maybe blue-crowned has decreased. Pine tree park was, and is, an excellent place for parrots, and is one of the best parks in migration for woodland birds. I found, and got a friend to photograph, a Cuban pewee there in 2017. In late 2004, and occasionally after, a group of three scaly-headed parrots would frequent the neighborhood just north of 21st street, around the canal. The last few years, a few have been seen in South Miami and the Gables. An odd looking parrot. Lastly where I live now, Shenandoah, has some common parrots. Most common are red-masked and yellow-chevroned parakeets. Orange-winged parrot and monk parakeet are regular. In 15 years, these same four have been consistent. White-winged parakeet seems to have died out. They have a slightly different call, and the white can be seen with a good look. For the first few years, small groups of these would pass over, independent from the yellow-chevroneds, but not for many years. Every once in a while, budgerigar comes around. There were 3 in the yard for a few minutes in 2023. Sorry for another freakin novel for your comment section! Like the warblers and painted buntings, it’s impossible to be brief. Hope you enjoy the info!

Daily basis here on Anna Maria Island in Florida Always in large groups of 20+ flying over and in the trees, very verbal and loud❤

Nature gets us to the Heaven's Gate. Thank you for this great documentary.

one of my favorite birds!!

ohh at 7:08 I think this is actually an orange winged amazon! I have 2 and they're a handful lol 🦜🦜😋

Did you say Coral Gables?

Thanks for the video, I’ll be in Miami in February. 🦜

I love parrots! I want to find all of them😊

Athena nocturna are lovely too

How much are cute and adorable screech and scop owlets

Loved this video about Osceola wild turkeys! Growing up in Maryland, I used to see Eastern wild turkeys all the time - they’d roam all over fields, woods, and even suburban neighborhoods. It was common to see them feeding on berries, insects, and even dead carcasses on the side of the road. But sadly, over the past few years, I’ve noticed their numbers declining. It’s not as common to see them anymore, and it’s heartbreaking. Habitat loss, and over hunting are taking a toll on these amazing birds. I’m so grateful for conservation efforts and educational videos like this one that help raise awareness about the importance of protecting our wildlife. Thanks for sharing!

My Friend photographed a Male in Santa Barbara California this week!

Your God, Science, should NOT be worshiped. Stay away from the "scientific cult" and think for yourself and draw your own conclusions without relying on the good ol' boys club.

Owls are the wisest🦉

lovely video.

great video

I’ve seen Roseate Spoonbills at the Everglades too💕

I thought I saw this video, and mentioned how much I love this bird! They are one of the most common migrants in the yard. Each winter, I have either a male or female that remains. There’s a female that’s been around a few weeks that baths at the fountain over and over all day. Last year, the same thing, could be the same one. It is what seems to be an older female, its pattern is strong, quite yellowish below, green above with a strong blue tinge on the tail. Beginning a few days ago, a male now comes. Yesterday, both were at the fountain at the same time. Just this morning, another female, more plain than the first, showed up. No male at this time. The second waited on a branch until the regular female left before taking a bath. In the video, they are moving around with strangler fig berry pierced through its bill, I’ve seen this often. Never seen any other warbler, or even any other bird, ‘carrying’ the fruit like this. One of the bird banders at the Cape Florida Banding Station showed me a picture of a plate someone made. It had a black-throated blue with a strangler fig berry design! This is the official bird of that station, often the most commonly banded species, along with ovenbird and American redstart. One time at Fairchild Gardens, I saw a real strange one. One side was male patterned, the other was female, sharply divided right down the middle!

Great to hear that you have more buntings this year. For me, this is the best year for painted buntings in the yard. The first wintering one was a female in 2015-16. From the next season though 2019-20 there was one typical male and one female. In 2020-21, a second male, with a very yellow back, with a faint red flecking arrived. The same one (?) has come back each year since. There’s been 2-3 green ones also. Last year, there were 3 female types. One had a bright blue shine around the head. This one was almost always very close to the female cardinal for some reason. The only male I saw was the yellow-backed one, and not regularly like the other three. I’ll let you know about this year, after some problems, and solutions, I’ve been working out in the last few years. From 2020-23, I was battling Eurasian Collared-Doves. Never witnessed aggression with them-Instead huge numbers (100 or more at a time!) would show up. Unlike any of the other yard birds, they’d panic for no obvious reason, all the time. This scared everyone else,of course. Not joking, half a bag of seed would be gone in a few hours. In time, I just ended up placing little bits of seed near the window on the ground, and/or stopped entirely for a few days when the doves would show up. This summer, I re-discovered a squirrel-proof bird feeder I bought in 2008. It didn’t attract much of anything back then (squirrels even ignored it). Found it, cleaned it up, and put it up where I could see from my desk. The few collared-doves are still around, as well as mournings, and one white-winged,all ignore the feeder. All the others, including the buntings, use it. Quickly another problem arose. House sparrows also stay away-until seed is put out. Within a week, very large numbers hung around, pretty much all day. Cardinals and blue jays simply pushed them aside. Not so with the buntings. They would drive them off. I would even see a female sparrow just sit on the feeder for long periods, pecking at any bunting that tried to land. Something needed to be done, immediately! I emptied the feeder first. It’s probably not good to have hordes of any species constantly around. So many would attract predators, bird droppings cover everything, and diseases could spread. Went on KZbin to find a solution. A channel called ‘Badgerland Birds’ had a video that deals with this issue that looked promising. Hanging filaments of silver twine around the feeder deters them. I bent a metal clothes hanger into a circular shape, installing it just above the feeder. Attached several strands to the hanger, tying a heavy screw to the ends of each. This keeps birds from getting tangled in the strands, and also prevents individual pieces from getting tangled up. Not any paid endorsement… but it completely solved the problem! Before I came inside, one of the females was already eating. The sparrows tried to get to the feeder. They’d hover, gather on nearby branches, never actually landing. This was on October 24th. One female alone a few days later managed to get in. After a minute it flew away. Not once since have any others been successful, and now none even try. A few do come, eating from the ground below. Within two days, the cardinals came back to the feeder, and the next day the blue jays. They all come and go normally now. I’m not sure exactly why, but it worked better than I imagined! As of today (Nov 19th) there are at least eight buntings. For a while, even with the sparrows, one green-backed and one yellow-backed male. There’s been five greens. Sometimes all are around the feeder at the same time. Early on Saturday (16th), there were two green-backed males eating next to each other, with the yellow-backed one a branch a few inches away. Definitely eight. Starting yesterday, a green one with a strong yellow triangle-shaped patch on the back that stands out visits. I don’t think I overlooked it. If not, then there are nine! I work (try to) at my desk a lot, so there’s been ample time to watch the buntings. The two males often come separately, each with two or more greens. They also come from different directions. Who knows, there may be a few groups of these birds in my pretty unremarkable Little Havana/ Shenandoah neighborhood. With your numbers, maybe Painted Buntings are doing better. I definitely see larger numbers out birding than back in the 1990s. Finally, some good news?

Protonatory like stream and river banks.

very nice!! thanks!!

What a beautiful bird ..only seem 2 females .. in cuba some people keep them as pets in a cage sadly ..some wants to do same in S fl ...no bueno 😮😢

Love painted buntings!❤

I had two males and one female in my central florida feeder only last winter

Amusing little turds.

We have been lucky to have these beautiful birds visit our feeder every fall in East Central Florida. I'm not sure how adult males there are. They don't share the feeder. But we see many females and juveniles. They seem to prefer white millet.

We get lots of them in Vancouver, BC - and yes, they are VERY fast! Cutest little guys. Someone needs to write a small birds book. They all seems to move very quickly so are hard to identify, often just by colour.

One of my favorite warblers ❤

During Beryl in the Texas gulf coast, we had a lot of affected Mississippi Kites. It was summer & they were nesting here. We got magnificents inland also. Interesting!

The east Everglades and the western agricultural areas of Miami-Dade is good for them from Oct-April. Many years ago there was a group every winter around NW 87th Ave and NW 25th Street. Probably not there these days; thirty years ago that area had cattle pastures!

I saw this change in the migration ahead of the storm. I figured they sensed the change in barometric pressure pretty far away.

“Thugs. (Frfr)” Can’t figure out how to edit the comment, I rarely ever leave these

I read somewhere that the wing flashing ground strut is how they trick grasshoppers and other jumping insects to do just that. Kind of like spooking grasshoppers to make themselves more obvious in the grass which is kind of typical sheistyass like behavior of these bug thugs free. Like is there nothing they won’t do to feed their babies !?!? Can’t blame them I guess I know many manyyyy humans that muster less effort than this tactic alone.

Riders on the storm Fliers by the storm Into this nest, we're lain Into this wind, we've flown 🐦cheep cheep 🐦

Why did I think or heard that they like going into the eye of the storm, making it easier for them. Although they'll not know where they end up 🙃

That was great, thank you. No birds here in Palm Coast except a Little Blue this morning.

Great info I was wondering what the birds were going to do for the storm!

Awesome Video! Love the ruddy turnstone!

Thanks for this! Found a dead one, think it crashed into my window

These are lovely

These are lovely

I have definitely learned its easiest to identify warblers and vireos by their calls because its often hard to see them. I live in southern gulf coast and have lots of hardwood forested upland habitats along creek wetlands by my house and have seen many warblers and vireo species around my property but been able to identify more by their calls then by sight. I regularly see hooded warblers, prothonatary warblers, black and white warblers, both woodthrush varieties, american redstarts, yellow breasted chats, common yellowthroat, wormeating warblers, tennesse warblers, black throated green warblers, pine warbler and a cerulean once and have been able to identify swainsons warbler, northern parula, yellow throated warblers, Kentucky warbler, and ovenbird by their call but Im sure there are more that I'm forgetting. I live in an area with biological hotspot for songbird diversity.

I have little parulas ..al year❤