Phoebes are one of those birds that you could definitely call fun feathered feasters. I love watching them dart down from where they are perched to try and snare their next meal – whether that be an unsuspecting insect, or the Bark Butter that I put out for the birds.
These entertaining eaters with their aerial antics have mastered the art of mid-flight munching!
Backyard Bird Nerd 
Eastern phoebes are one of my favorite birds. (I know there is more than one kind of phoebe so not sure which is in your pictures.) Our first summer at our new country home a few years ago, we had an eastern phoebe insist her nest should be over our master bathroom’s window. I gave up discouraging her after two days and watched her build her nest in about 24 hours with mud and twigs cantilevered off the narrow trim. It was a feat of engineering. She had two broods that year, four each time, and we watched her hunt insects and feed her young. Amazingly (at least to us), she came back to the same nest the next spring and had two broods again. “Phoebe” the eastern phoebe was a hard-working mother and every time I hear “fee-bee! fee-bee!” over the spring and summer I like to think it’s the next generation finding us. (P.S. I had no idea they ate bark butter!)
This was indeed an Eastern Phoebe. I know what you mean about how fun it is to watch them raise their young. We often have one build in the rafters of our front porch. I find them mesmerizing.
What’s in bark butter? Do you buy it ready-made?
I buy it ready made from wild birds unlimited. 😊
Acrobats!! 💜
They really are!