Category: Birds

Buffet.

House Sparrows feed at the sunflower seed buffet.

Picks.

A House Sparrow picks at a suet block.

I never tire.

I never tire of watching Turkey Vultures wheel and soar.

In the distance.

A Mute Swan hovers in the distance, on the far side of the pond.

Searches.

A Blue Jay searches for tidbits under a hanging sunflower seed feeder .

Chickadee.

Although I am in chickadee country, I have not regularly seen chickadees at my feeders for almost ten years. Why, is a mystery. So I was very pleased to see this fellow and one other during the past two days. Their antics are so pleasing and amusing, I do hope they hang around!

Mourning Dove, silhouetted . .

. . . against a grey sky.

Finches at the feeder.

Immature House Finches visit the sunflower feeder.

Sharing.

Spending some time at the beach meant sharing some space and time with this Ring-billed Gull.

Not easy.

House Sparrows are not clinging birds.

Extracting seeds from an upside-down sunflower seed head is not easy when you are not a clinging bird.