There have been lots of birds flitting around the backyard lately. They don't tend to sit still for long to identify them or take photographs. Leaning out my home office window with the big 600mm lens I managed to get shots of a few of them. They're not all as sharp as I'd like but good enough to identify them. (I'm not a bird expert, if I got any of the id's wrong, please let me know.)
And of course, one of the most common bird around, the American robins.
I've been watching to see if any of them would nest in our birdhouses. When I looked out this morning there was a head poking out of one of the birdhouses. By the time I had grabbed my camera it had left, but a House wren returned shortly with a large twig which took some maneuvering to get into the birdhouse. When I cleaned out the birdhouse that the house wrens had used last year I found they had filled up the bottom of the box with twigs and then built their nest on top of that, so it was level with the entrance hole. That's probably what they're doing again.
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| Red-eyed vireo |
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| Swainson's thrush |
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| Savannah sparrow |
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| Yellow warbler with worm |
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| White-crowned sparrow |
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| House sparrow with mouthful |
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| Pigeon |
I've been watching to see if any of them would nest in our birdhouses. When I looked out this morning there was a head poking out of one of the birdhouses. By the time I had grabbed my camera it had left, but a House wren returned shortly with a large twig which took some maneuvering to get into the birdhouse. When I cleaned out the birdhouse that the house wrens had used last year I found they had filled up the bottom of the box with twigs and then built their nest on top of that, so it was level with the entrance hole. That's probably what they're doing again.
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