Blue Jays a plenty

For a day or two the Blue Jays seemed to dominate the back yard. They can be ornery but these just seemed to want to eat and drink before moving on to another destination. As you can see their coloring is bright and beautiful and nothing like their song and high pitched screeching.

First Baltimore Oriole visiting this year and this is our first female, where is the male?









Male Downey and House Sparrow sharing the nuts.




Indigo Bunting back again to the feeder.


Wren visiting looking for a place to sleep.




Chipping Sparrows



House Finch



Male and Female Grosbeaks at the feeder.

Two new birds spotted in our Normal Backyard this week. The Red Headed Woodpecker and the Spotted Towhee. Our backyard has been full of bird activity a lot of House Sparrows, Starlings and black birds. This week we have also had the Red Breasted Grosbeaks migrating through and earlier the White-Throated Sparrows.


Red Headed Woodpecker







White Crowned Sparrows




Female Red-Breasted Grosbeak no red just brown and white unlike the male with a bright red breast.




Gold Finches So pretty and what a sweet melody they sing





Spotted Towhee






Indigo Buntings - The male is molting to adult plumage

Yesterday's Pictures

Couple of pictures of Chipping Sparrow's in the back yard





Gold Finches attracted by Thistle Seed and new feeder



Can't keep the Cooper's Hawk from scanning the bird feeder, today he was a little slow and missed the chow.





House Finches love the new feeder too.




Carolina Chickadee stopped for a bit of seed.





The Red Bellied Woodpecker hangs around the neighborhood going on two years.





Just one of our Downey WoodPeckers that have stay with us for nearly two years.



As you can see the entry way has been chewed out by the local starling population. I guess they don't have Starlings in California where this bird house was created.