Bird Identification Help...

[roadrunner]

I've been having this bird visit my garden and eating various berries I have growing. It mostly sits above and just watches over the garden, but the other day two of them were chasing each other and flew very close by me and then today one was taking a bath, but as usual I didn't have my camera.

Finally got a picture of it, but kind of fuzzy, since I had to use max zoom. I can't find it in any bird ID book for birds that visit/reside in Jacksonville, Fl.

Can anyone ID?

 

[Meadowlark]

I'm guessing the Eastern Bluebird...very common around here this time of year. They will move into bird houses readily and really help out with insect control around the garden. Great to have around.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Eastern Bluebird. I've only seen a few, ever. Never in my yard.

 

[DirtMechanic]

You know you are having a good day

This is a famous bluebird picture

 

[roadrunner]

Thank you, that's it...Eastern Bluebird...now I think I'm going to set up a bird house for it.

 

[roadrunner]

I went back and looked at the list of birds I was looking at and there was an Eastern Bluebird (because I was wondering how I missed it)....It turns out they were showing a female Eastern Bluebird, which does not have the striking blue color as the male....

Seems like if you want to show bird ID, you'll have both pictures of males and females... Some places do and some don't....

 

[Esther Knapicius]

We have lots of these . they also like the calicarpia berries.

 

[roadrunner]

I do have some of those berries in my yard, along with a few other native plants/vines that keep them around.

 

[Esther Knapicius]

FinalDily found these shots I took last year, in the fall. they clean these berries out, there was about 10 birds on the bush. Today they are in the feeder out in the snow. did not mean to have a second one twice.

 

[Esther Knapicius]

 

[NE Ohio John]

Eastern Bluebirds have a beautiful song... a delight to see them in the backyard & nesting in bird houses.

 

[Esther Knapicius]

I am blessed with so many types of birds, guess I can google the song of them to know what I a listening to .

Yep, I hear that sound.

 

[Silentrunning]

This is in my neck of the woods:

Eastern Bluebird Rescue Group - World's Best Bluebird Houses

Eastern Bluebird Rescue Group - Bluebird Conservation and Education, North Carolina

www.easternbluebirdrescue.org

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[Esther Knapicius]

This is in my neck of the woods:

Eastern Bluebird Rescue Group - World's Best Bluebird Houses

Eastern Bluebird Rescue Group - Bluebird Conservation and Education, North Carolina

www.easternbluebirdrescue.org

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To me that is expensive for a birdhouse. I would pay $10.00 for one, maybe even $12.00. but what they are asking, nope. have to find local.

 

[Silentrunning]

The sale of these birdhouses finances the rescue house. They aren’t trying to compete with Walmart, they are trying to save injured and misplaced birds.

Also notice that if you pick up the birdhouse at their rescue facility the price is only $10.