Tag: Songbirds

  • Female Bluebird Looking Pretty in The Rain

    Female Bluebird Looking Pretty in The Rain

    Female Bluebird Chillin’ In a Rainstorm. Charleston SC Jan 2026

  • Brown Thrasher Bath Standoff with Blue Jays

    Brown Thrasher Bath Standoff with Blue Jays

    Brown Thrashers are fairly secretive birds with long bodies, legs, and tails. They have a red brown plumage with white underparts that are heavily streaked. Brown thrashers have two black and white wingbars and are in the same family as mockingbirds and catbirds. Blue Jays love a good standoff and it looks like brown thrashers…

  • Carolina Wren Looking Pretty

    Carolina Wren Looking Pretty

    This Carolina wren lives, nests, and has babies in our garage. It’s an open slated garage with outdoor access through the slates. The Carolina wren is a relentless and loud singer. The song is generally the first and last we hear of a day. Look for a small bird with a relatively long tail with…

  • Fidgety Palm Warbler Feaking and Preening

    Fidgety Palm Warbler Feaking and Preening

    Fidgety Palm Warbler in Pear Tree Charleston SC Nov 2024 preening and feaking. Eastern subspecies most likely because of the brighter yellow colors. Palm Warblers have yellowish eyebrows and a brown line through the eyes, a chestnut cap, subtle brown steaks on the breasts, and yellow under parts. This palm warbler is feaking (cleaning, honing/sharpening)…

  • Bluebird and Brown Thrasher at The Waterbowl

    Bluebird and Brown Thrasher at The Waterbowl

    This young bluebirds chilling at the waterbowl in Charleston SC when a brown thrasher lands and starts running and hopping around looking for beetles and bugs. We have cardboard mulch down in some of these areas making the brown thrasher have to work a little more to get through it and under the pine straw…

  • Male Cardinal Bath time

    Male Cardinal Bath time

    Male cardinal takes a bath in the water bowl in Charleston SC.