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Beautiful bee! 🐝 ❤️

Here too. They love suet!

I have never seen a Painted Bunting, it's on my bird bucket list! Glad you got to see one!

I saw one once years ago ground feeding beneath the feeders here in NM. I had never seen one before, had to pull out my bird ID book to be sure! :D They are gorgeous!

Occasionally I will get a Bullock's Oriole come to the hummer feeders, they don't stick around though.

Beautiful birds aren't they?! They've become irruptive around here. I think our drought has got them going elsewhere in search of food.

We used to see Evening Grosbeaks here too but they are extremely rare here now. :(

Looks like you are in their path, lucky you! Its rare for me to see them.

Do you have the Rose-breasted Grosbeak there? They are pretty too. Once in a while they will wander this far west, I've seen a few over the past decades, most likely migrating north as they don't stay long.

Black-headed Grosbeak range...

Unfortunately I don't have any photos but here is the male, the female is more dull looking. The male has a very melodic colorful call, very pretty song!

The first Black-headed Grosbeak showed up yesterday, I love hearing the males sing!

Western Bluebirds are already nesting in one of the boxes, same box as last year. I need to go peek one of these days and see how many eggs the female laid. She usually lays 5.

This would work too!

We get Canyon Towhees trying to build nests up in the rafters of our porch, similar ledge to yours. We put rocks up there on the ledge, seems to deter them. Just don't let the rocks fall on your head. 😂

So you have them up there? Do they eat you out of house, home and birdseed? 😁 These White-Winged Doves down here can stuff their faces and fast!

I did not know that! I've never seen one. We are inundated with White-Winged Doves they are everywhere. Folks hunt them during their season.

We have Cowbirds here too. I haven't seen many offspring over the years, so they must not too successful at fooling the birds around my area. Love to watch Crows and Ravens annoy the hawks. 😅 The hawks seem unimpressed and usually continue to go about their business soaring the skies. ❤

Absolutely, it all went down hill from there. Thankfully human kind has figured out not to allow non-native species into the country anymore.

Humans have in general made poor decisions about our environment, birds especially. It's a sad situation to which there is no easy remedy. Birds are on the loosing end of the deal too. :(