Now that’s a lot of birdies on one feeder! I know it’s pretty hard to see but there are birds on the hanging branch to the right also. They just love the thistle seed! I counted about 10 or 11 on the feeder once. They are all Goldfinches and Lesser Goldfinches.

There is usually a little scrap that breaks out between them, followed by a lot of angry chirping when another finch tries to squeeze into the crowd. They always make me laugh.

A Summer Tanager in the bird jacuzzi. What a rare sighting. At first I thought it was a cardinal, but then I saw that he did not have the same beak and he did not have the tuft on his head. How cool is this!! Summer Tanagers eat bees and wasps almost exclusively. When having caught a bee it will remove the stinger before eating it by rubbing it in a branch.

It’s a terrible picture, but he flew off right after this one. I guess he doesn’t like all the publicity.