Maybe we just needed a rainy day!

This very wet day....

started out with yet another person asking me where all the birds were and me lamenting the lack of baby robins this year.

not fifteen minutes later I looked out my patio doors to see this fledgling American Robin sitting on the rail (photo taken through the window)...

then I noticed this one sitting on top of my patio swing, and there was yet another up in the cedar tree above this little guy.  The parents were busy flying back and forth....

from this cherry tree, in fact this tree, which should be an ornamental flowering cherry but that has reverted back to it's root stock is the most popular tree in the park right now, not only has there been a constant stream of Robins at it but I also spotted.....

a Western Tanager, and a starling (no picture) and...

then, oh my goodness!  this young Raccoon!!!  You don't normally see raccoon out in the day time but unfortunately our raccoon population is in a bit of disarray right now.  Yet another new owner who buys into our rural setting and then hires a pest control company to expel the local wildlife.  Frustrating!!! but at least it did provide a great photo opportunity.

Just down from all the activity in the cherry tree, the Red-breasted Sapsucker was busy working on it's two favorite trees.

Back at home it has been a busy day....

seems every time I look out there is a juvenile Rufous Hummingbird at either the hanging fushia baskets or the honeysuckle vine.

the Black-cap Chickadee babies have figured out the peanut feeder - 3 at a time!  The nuthatch family didn't show up until later this afternoon.

There have been all sorts of Purple Finch, these two very wet males, but also females and youngsters.  Goldfinch have been showing up too.

Black-headed Grosbeak have been around too, in fact that male with the weird white eye ring was out there at one point.

I'll finish off with a White-crowned Sparrow - that isn't a creek behind it, it is a road.  Haven't seen a young one of these yet, 'nor a young Junco.  I have seen some young Spotted Towhee but haven't caught one on camera yet.  maybe tomorrow, apparently it is going to be another wet day.