Yard Birds 2024-25

 I guess I will do this again.  Seems a little useless when lately we've not had anything interesting in the yard.  I would love to see a purple finch, or a red-breasted nuthatch, or a pine siskin, or any of the other rarities that we have gotten occasionally in past years.

1. house finch (many!)
2. goldfinch
3. Carolina wren
4. chipping sparrow
5. Savannah sparrow
6. white-throated sparrow
7. northern towhee
8. northern junco
9. northern cardinal
10. downy woodpecker
11. red-bellied woodpecker
12. pine warbler
13. mourning dove
14. eastern bluebird
15. brown-headed nuthatch
16. white-breasted nuthatch
17. ruby-crowned kinglet
18. tufted titmouse
19. Carolina chickadee
20. brown thrasher
21. blue jay
22. mockingbird
    
    
    

    
    

    
    
    
    
    

Not Much to See Lately

September 2024.  Been kinda struggling lately with just seeing local birds.  Just seems like I've seen so many of them, and I'd love to go somewhere and see new ones.  My lifetime count is at 234.  That's not bad, but I'd like to get it higher.  Oh well, I'll be OK soon enough.  If I just see one interesting thing I'll be fine again for awhile.  :-)

 

Hawks chart

Posting for future reference.

 

Immature Summer Tanager

Yesterday morning (6/3/24) an immature summer tanager came to our yard and rested both on the wire that holds feeders and on the mirror of Mike's truck.  Tanagers hang close to the woods, and we've never seen one pop out like this before.  It didn't seem to know what to do or where to go, so it just hung around for awhile.

Mike saw it again this morning for a few minutes while I was in the other room.  So we don't know if it may reappear or not.  But either way, this was an especially fun sighting since it is quite unusual for a summer tanager.