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These are the 2 primary families or I should say our Favorite Families of feathered friends it’s almost time for the birds to roost for the night and they love the last meal before bedtime:-)

The Common Minah birds are extremely intelligent and love fruits especially grapes depending on what is available at Costco is what I put out for my feathered friends they also enjoy Mangoes Honeydew melon cantaloupe it seems anything that’s softer and sweet they will eat seeds geckos and insects as well but I only supply fruits and seeds

What a handsome guy always happy and Chirpy

He just gets so relaxed and is such a great friend

This one always came with a mate but the last 5-6 days has only come solo and it appears she’s carrying eggs I hope her other half is OK it’ll be fun once her offspring come with her to visit

The Sun is rising and the Cardinals and Bulbuls are here the Minah Birds left as soon as I open the screen door

A taste of some of our favs all getting a last meal before bedtime it turns out our Saffron Finch’s have babies I was wondering why they were wanting the seed bowls every 15 minutes lately. These birds call us for the seed bowls well most of them do 1 Northern Cardinal Female just looks at us thru the screen door and goes from the gable to an arm on a chair she has a distinct personality and just doesn’t verbalize much on the other hand a different Northern Cardinal I’ve named Chirpy Girl can’t keep her beak shut she’s super vocal all of these birds have very distinct personalities and since they are all our Back Yard birds we get to see this daily and they are eating approximately 5 feet from where I’m typically sitting so much fun

Went to Nor Cal to Visit my Mother and a crow was cawing at me so I threw some bread into the court just to see if they would have a meal and have been feeding them daily these birds are a trip such intelligent critters they are getting to know me and they will eat about anything that’s leftover I’m really enjoying their company and watching their behavior I swear they are smarter than my brother

It’s a rainy afternoon and I just wire tied up a couple small groups of grapes well word got out fast to the Finches

All eating their respective favorite foods

It appears these African Ringneck’ SSA are going to be visiting more often they are such beautiful birds I think he grabbed a grape that fell on the ground dropped by the Red Whiskered Bulbuls

Our 15 year old Border Collie can barely walk these days but he still loves his pool and gets so relaxed he starts falling asleep

Cute Crested Cardinals they have a very unique personality

This guy came out of nowhere I’ve never seen him before but he just jumped into the seed bowls and had a meal it would have been interesting if Daddy-O our buddy Male Cardinal was nearby just to watch him chase off this guy

A Japanese White Eye family and the parents are teaching their babies to eat

Daddy-o makes a lot of chirps 1 to get my attention that he wants the seed bowls then while he eats he’s an interesting guy for several weeks he watched the females and how I interacted with them and finally started eating along with them now he’s quite active In asking for the seed bowls a pretty smart guy

These 2 are really cool birds the female is far less skittish and the male is finally able to eat without grabbing a peanut and running off well as long as I place the seed bowls on the Rock Wall the male will now relax a bit but since it’s further from me I can’t see what it is that they prefer to eat it’s interesting that each bird has favorite foods within a species but all these birds on my videos are regulars and when an outsider tries to partake they get chased away many of the species are territorial the Common House Finch’s and the Doves “Dumb Birds” do not seem to be territorial at all but almost all the other species are very protective of their area Mynahs come in a larger group but that group is always the same birds and I swear they have meetings on how to keep the group from growing. The Mynah’s aren’t fond of the seeds but love the Grapes that I wire tie to the Plumeria Tree and the Hibiscus bush grapes are not grown on Oahu but once they figured out that they liked this fruit they wait for me to place them in the tree and chat to me while I am putting them up so very cute

These Birds used to come in droves to our yard but our Neighbors pitched a fit because of their loud squeaking but my god they are beautiful sadly they are a major nuisance on YouTube there are videos of these Parrots on Kauai that are causing farmers up to 30% crop loss

This gal just started coming to my yard a couple days ago and is very nervous at coming to the seed bowls that are just a few feet away from my door as such I hadn’t had an opportunity to catch her on a video but WOW it’s like she’s all ready to go out on the town on a Friday Night her colors are just stunning most of the females are a fairly plain tannish color this gal is all made up so to speak what a Beautiful Lady :-)

Our Feathered friends having grapes for lunch the Mejiro’s (Japanese White Eye) being tiny always have to wait until the other larger species eat first today we have had so many baby birds coming by

Just another on our buddies and the Saffron Finch babies who soon will not be fed by mom and dad

This little Baby Red Whiskered Bulbul is not a perfect specimen and was abandoned but the little guy knows our yard and we are making sure that there is a variety of food for it the first day of it being abandoned it went to different adults begging to be fed but has since just decided it is going to live and feed itself what a little trooper there are a lot of things that just don’t seem right about this bird but we love it’s zest to survive

These are our Saffron Finch Couple they are almost always together we have named them Babies and can call them for their meal a couple yells of “Babies” and they are at our door or in our Plumeria Tree ready to get their seed bowl. We started with a hanging bird feeder but within a month had literally hundreds of what we call Tuxedos which are actually Java Sparrows and these are noisy and seem to tell every other Tuxedo where the food is an literally several hundred would be in the tree so now we selectively feed quiet cute birds which we have many that are like pets that answer to their names these 2 are “Babies” and redoing so quickly they are such cute little feathered friends they also call us when they would like their seed bowl put out with short sharp crisps

Well one type of Canary and she’s a Saffron Finch

This gal is so darned cool and laid back so much like her own Mother who we had named Momma well she’s almost as cool as her Momma