Friday, June 5, 2020

Backyard Birding


June 5, 2020

For the first time in a couple of years, we have residents in our birdhouse. Not wrens this time, but Black-capped Chickadees.  It’s fairly easy to get photos of the adults leaving the nest, as they stick their heads out first.  In fact, we even got shots on one removing a fecal sac.  But it is almost impossible to get a shot of one entering the nest, because they show up a dive straight in without a pause.  We generally get a back and some tail only.





Other birds are working on raising families too.  An American Robin is busy gathering worms for its young, and a Northern Cardinal fledgling stopped by in the yard too.



While waiting for all this to unfold, a Chipping Sparrow showed up and took a drink and a bath at our pond.








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