'FORUM FRIENDS, WILDLIFE-FROM-WHEREVER' (Off-season, all cams off at Loch Garten)

Only just come on the Forum. Yep, it is an male Eastern Towhee as suggested by the others. Love them but did not know they were bold enough to go on a feeder--perhaps this bird should have gone farther south for the winter, and is desperate for food to make it visit the feeder. Those I saw were only present in the summer in a US State farther north. They were skulking on the ground in the dense undergrowth in a woodland edge--heard them before seeing them because they were scratching around on the floor like the Blackbirds do here, like an old hen, a lovely sound and an even better sight if I could locate them in the brush. (Wrote this and then checked the allabout birds page to see its range and was pleased to read their first paragraph--exactly what I said--hurrah! See: www.allaboutbirds.org/.../ )

Ok, not a bird. And taken in August, but these guys continue to cheer me up

How can they not cheer you up, what a cheeky, nosey chappy!

Makov Rescue Station

A hare !!!  I don't recall seeing one before but it could easily be mistaken for a big rabbit when I'm speeding thru the footage:

Male and female GSW.  (There was also a male Middle but I didn't find a matching female.)

This was a Starr Ranch California Towhee - always one of my favourites - it was a few years ago, we haven't had a "Spa" cam for a long time :(

I can't correct the partial duplication above, it won't let me delete the first one.

EDIT - Oh, OK, it's gone now :-/

Nah, no way those ears belong to a rabbit !!!!!!

Bee ute iful bright eye woody p. What a star ......

and understated towhee (what a strange name) looking so attractive nevertheless

Thanks Scylla

Well done on the Eastern Towhee info, GARDENBIRDER - I've been searching for my Spotted but it's so hard to get to old albums in Imgur these days (since they decided they wanted to be Social Meejah rather than merely picture hosters  )

29 December

Boreal Ontario

First in @ 08:10 was the Western Meadowlark but only on the ground - soon a Chickadee came and took away a seed:

The Black-capped Chickadee and Red-breasted Nuthatch are always in 'n out, even tho not mentioned often.

Then we got a Pine Grosbeak... soon joined by an Evening Grosbeak and then another Pine:

Then the Ruffed Grouse - not madly active, pecked at seeds and looked around a lot:

Gray Jay popped in and ate a couple of seeds unphotegenically...

They broke up the seed-cake so's the crow wouldn't take it all at once  

The wind came up gustily in the afternoon and blew the seeds to the fore on the left side of the feeder, it also caused a lot of glitches so I haven't bothered to try to smooth this out:

This piece required both beak and feet to carry it away:

The Western Meadowlark pottered on the ground in the usual place around 17:10, a Chickadee was on the nest at that time - but no more activity, no fox that night.

Tennessee

As with Arne, this cam is too difficult for me to cover competently :(

I may have got 3 Tufted Titmice, tho - whadya think?

After dark, a Raccoon raided the feeder at least twice - this is just the beginning of the first and the end of the second:

A lovely dog also wandered by but I couldn't get a good shot of it.

Makov Rescue Station, Cz

Heehee, it's too tough!