Tufted Titmouse

My wife knows how much I enjoy watching the birds on our property, so it was an easy choice to give me an intelligent bird feeder for my birthday. If you haven’t seen them before, they are pretty impressive since they take a short video of every bird that lands on the feeder and keep a record of those birds. It can also email an alert of those birds landing. (I did turn that feature off after this bird feeder became the most popular one on our property)  The intelligent bird feeder connects to an app called Bird Lover on your phone and will identify any bird it sees. It even has a built-in microphone and speaker, which allows you to hear the birds or yell at a squirrel trying to steal their food. This is the perfect companion to the Merlin app I wrote about almost a year ago, which identifies birds by their songs.

When I stopped by my favorite hardware store, Reardon Briggs, I mentioned to Courtney, who was checking me out, that I had a Smart Birdfeeder similar to the ones they were selling. She said she gave her parents one of the bird feeders from the store for Christmas, and they took an amazing photo of two crows fighting. She was right; you can see it below. Many companies make these bird feeders, and I can’t recommend one over another, but we have had a lot of fun with the one in our yard.

Crow Action Shot by Tom and Lorraine Lundgren

Smart Bird Feeder

Blue Jay

House Finch

Red-Bellied Woodpecker