Bird Action

We've had fun watching the birds at our feeders lately. The area outside our family room window had just been aflutter . These are mostly what my sister-in-law, who like big birds, refers to as LGBs (Little Gray Birds), but up close, they are so much more. Unfortunately, since they are small, and very lively, they are hard to photograph, so please excuse my showing you so many blurry photos. I'll keep trying harder to do better. The Black Capped Chickadees are ever present. More colorful, and almost always present, are the Chestnut Backed Chickadees. I had a terrible time capturing these guys. Chickadees never park themselves at the feeder. Instead they perch, grab one seed, and then fly off to a tree or bush to eat the seed before coming back for another. They will sit longer on the suet feeder.

In the distance a Steller's Jay made a brief appearance. Oregon juncos are also ever present, but usually work the ground. Then it's as if they decide it's their turn, and they park themselves on the feeders.

This little beauty has been showing up every day lately. It's a Townsend's Warbler.

And we've also been getting daily visits from a flock of pine siskins.

But it's when the flock of bush tits arrive that the action really picks up, as they flutter and fight for their turn at the feeders, and mob the suet.

I took a little stroll around the yard this afternoon and found another LGB flitting in the shrubbery. This shy Bewick's wren was also hard to capture, but it's there, blending into the brown of the winter garden.