Birds of 2024
My back yard bird community has been progressively growing since we started transforming and enlarging our gardens. We have been planting more native plants as well as plants to specifically attract birds. Native plants are extremely important for our birds, butterflies, other pollinators, and by extension for us, as individuals, and as a species.. You can find great information about native plants for birds at www.audubon.org. Here for your enjoyment are some of the back yard birds I photographed this year. I hope you like them
Black-capped Chickadee
A Red-bellied Woodpecker launches off a branch
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Dark-eyed Junco
Tufted Titmouse
Male Downy Woodpecker
Female Downy Woodpecker takes flight
Downy Woodpecker in flight
Male Downy Woodpecker
American Goldfinch, puffed up to stay warm
Black-capped Chickadee stays warm by puffing out its feathers
Blue Jay
Blue Jay
Dark-eyed Junco
American Goldfinch in his summer colors
Pine Siskin
Pine Siskin
Male Red-bellied Woodpecker
Male Red-Bellied Woodpecker
2004-23pcd-birds-160-standard.jpgFemale Downy Woodpecker launches off the trrr trunk like a rocket
She spreads her wings shortly after her launch
Hopping up the tree trunk
White-breasted Nuthatch
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk soars overhead
Red-shouldered Hawk
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Tufted Titmouse
Wild Turkey, a male struts his stuff
Eastern Bluebird
Bluebird in flight
Pileated Woodpecker in flight
Eastern Bluebird
Pine Siskin in flight
Pine Siskin
