Evening Grosbeaks have been the over whelming ‘bird of the day’ although there have been quite a few Band-tail Pigeons around too.
Here is a tray full of Evening Grosbeaks – 7 in the picture…
since you take pictures of the birds when they are around, ‘cause you know sooner or later they’ll leave….so here is a close up of a male..
and here a female – I actually prefer the females, they aren’t so ‘gaudy’ looking!
this male was getting a drink at our little water feature – speaking of water features, my neighbour had a visit from a Western Tanager at his backyard pond today.
we did go down to the boat launch but it was very quiet there as it was quite windy today. The water has inched up a bit but still isn’t back to where it was a couple of weeks ago.
not a bird, but a butterfly – a Spring Azure – there were several of them getting moisture at the water edge. I’ve actually seen a few different butterflies in the past month or so but never when I’ve had a camera handy.
back home, I wanted to put this in, even though it isn’t a great picture, but the fact that there are still Chestnut-backed Chickadees around is interesting – that must mean they are nesting here this year. It has been a number of years since that has happened, at least that I know of.
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