Video: A Rubythroated surprise

I have put out the pretty Allura feeder again, and yesterday in the evening as a late surprise for my birthday, a Rubythroated Hummingbird came to visit. He needs to figure out how to sit down but I am sure he will learn.
(I am livestreaming this camera in my channel on birdsy.com. The feeder is made by Perla: www.allurafeeders.com.)

Livestream PSA

I have several Birdsy cameras in my yard that I am livestreaming in different spots. The main bath/ pond in the summer can be watched here on my website but also on BirdsyTV. The Tree cam and the green bath cam are livestreaming on that website as well, I am going to post links below. You can give my channels and cams and also videos a like there too. The website will eventually grow but there are already several cams public there. My own livecams change throughout the year, I may move them around, activate and deactivate per my needs. But here is how you find them:

1. Ostdrossel pond channel: https://birdsy.com/l/355115274eb4873b and ostdrossel.com/livestream

2. Ostdrossel3 channel (tree cam and shed cam and sometimes a third one): https://birdsy.com/c/Ostdrossel3

Activity will ramp up in the coming weeks with migration starting, so there may be lots of fun stuff to see. Check it out if you like

Video: Tiny feeder for the small crowd

I have seen these for a while now and always wanted one, and finally bit the bullet (I found the feeder on Etsy, with a seller named PKNKTreasures). This feeder is on the small side, and I love that I haven't seen a Dove on it yet. Well, and of course the adorable look! The Bluebirds found it pretty quickly too. Yay! I am livestreaming this cam currently on one of my channels over at birdsy.com. They have a sale going on right now too, you can get their camera for $149 right now.

Feeder test: Lucky Pop

This feeder has been sent to me recently too. It is by the company Lucky Pop (which is how you can find it on Amazon). I wasn’t really sure where to place it at first but I found the perfect spot today on my main feeder pole. It has several good features. Apart from being sturdy and looking clean and green, it can potentially hold a huge amount of seed. You can vary the size because it has a retractable shrout that gets fixed into place with a needle (you can see it in the first two photos). The perches can be pulled out but I feel like they will not stay in place, so if I wanted to use them, I would probably tape them in a fixed position from underneath. The little “trough” without the perches is perfect for smaller birds though, and that is exactly why I am using it right now. It fills from the top, and the lid gets fixed by a screw. They market it as squirrel-proof but I am not sure I see how that works so I would not recommend to hang it anywhere where they can access if you don’t want that. Another plus is the relatively low price.