The winter birds are back. This afternoon, my feeders served juncos and towhees, (on the ground), bushtits at the suet in the maple, and chickadees, a white-crowned sparrow, a pair of finches, nuthatches, a tiny wren (who looked at the seed, decided it was too big, and flew away) and an unexpected newcomer, all at the table close to my window.
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| Black-capped chickadee. An old-timer. |
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| Chickadee and my little stone angel. |
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| Chestnut-backed chickadee! I haven't seen one for years. |
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| Black-capped on left, blurry chestnut-backed on right. These are fast little birds, even compared to the larger black-capped chickadee. |
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| The one in back is another black-capped. The bellies are often buffy, but I think this one also has reflected orange light from the birdbath. |
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| House finch |
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| Squirrel cleaning up the leftovers. |
The nuthatches are too quick for me; they zip in, snatch a seed, zip away while my already-focused camera thinks about taking a photo. And the juncos -- ah, the juncos! Bounce, bounce, bounce, hoppity-hop; always in motion, always at a distance. They don't like the table with a camera pointing at them over the computer screen. I think I need some camouflage; a bird blind on my desk.
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