Looks

A House Sparrow cocks it head and looks up.

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Forage

House Sparrows forage in a cedar bush.

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Poke

Two House Sparrows poke among landscape rocks for sunflower seeds.

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Gleaned

The goldfinches have gleaned many of the seeds out of this sunflower head in our front yard.

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Visitors

Project FeederWatch, a citizen sciemce program bewgan last weekend. This will be my tenth season of contributing observations.

These American Goldfinches were among my visitors.

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Serenade

This gathering of Common Grackles provided quite a musical, squeaky-hinge serenade to an evening outside.

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Visitor

A female House Sparrow drops in for a meal.

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Graced

Every day while I am at work, this sparrow (I think it’s a Song Sparrow) graces me with its lovely song.

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Deceiving

The Common Grackle may appear to be stern, even angry. We might think, that the bright golden eye denotes thoughts, feelings, emotions, that aren’t actually there. This is simply the ‘suit he wears’.

Appearances can be deceiving.

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Not to worry . . .

. . . Stella is uninterested in this Mourning Dove.

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