Tag: bird

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.

No, I am not upside down.

This American Goldfinch is.

Blends in.

A male American Goldfinch blends in quite nicely.

Head cocked.

Head cocked to better survey the lay of the land, this House Finch ensures that the area is safe before visiting the feeder.