Thursday, April 22, 2010
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
A Family of Yellow-Rumped Warblers, A yellow bellied Sapsucker and The elusive Flicker!
But enough about that! I decided that I wanted to get out and see if I could get a few pictures of the birds that I've been seeing on my morning runs. As of late there was the flicker, house finch, purple finches and a yellow bellied sapsucker.
All in all not a bad bird day!
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
White throated sparrow returns!
Man what a day! I just looked outside and what did i see perched on top of the fence? Yup! My musical little friend...I sure hope they're here for a bit so I can get some good pictures!
A Yellow Shafted Flicker!
Wonder of Wonder miracle of miracles!
On my afternoon run (I'm training for the 1/2 marathon) I was wishing that something would take my mind off of the fact that I waited tooooooo long today and the sun was a killer.
It was at that moment that I then spotted distinctive flight of what could only be a flicker. I followed her down the street...kind of unavoidable with the whole running thing...she'd fly down the street, find a spot and dig away until I got too close and then repeat the pattern.
At one point I stayed on the far side of the street and managed to get withing about 10 feet of her while I jogged in place and watched her beautiful unmoustached face.
Eventually the chase pushed her onto my street and onto my front yard before she was scared off by pedestrians.
I can't believe that there was a flicker in our development, never mind in the front yard! Somehow suburbia isn't there usual stomping ground!
On my afternoon run (I'm training for the 1/2 marathon) I was wishing that something would take my mind off of the fact that I waited tooooooo long today and the sun was a killer.
It was at that moment that I then spotted distinctive flight of what could only be a flicker. I followed her down the street...kind of unavoidable with the whole running thing...she'd fly down the street, find a spot and dig away until I got too close and then repeat the pattern.
At one point I stayed on the far side of the street and managed to get withing about 10 feet of her while I jogged in place and watched her beautiful unmoustached face.
Eventually the chase pushed her onto my street and onto my front yard before she was scared off by pedestrians.
I can't believe that there was a flicker in our development, never mind in the front yard! Somehow suburbia isn't there usual stomping ground!
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
The Fox Sparrow

Monday, April 12, 2010
The Mourning Doves have returned!

They wandered around pecking away to their hearts content. The yard was a very harmonious blend of Sparrows, Juncos, Red-winged Blackbirds, Grackles & Mourning doves.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Beautiful Junco's

Their song is like no other...songs so beautiful that it actually moved me to tears one afternoon as I sat outside surrounded by about 35 juncos all singing & vying for the best spot on the feeding stations.
Saturday, April 3, 2010
The Chipping Sparrow has arrived!
A quick note as I'm in the middle of Easter Dinner....I looked out the patio door and noticed that there was a chipping sparrow hopping around the yard!!!
Yay Spring!!
Yay Spring!!
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