This morning was a busy morning at the bird feeder. It is cold, just above freezing and not expecting to get any warmer today, but sunny. Around 9:00 the birds started showing up and we had a wide variety and several of the most beautiful ones we have were putting on quite the show. in about thirty minutes we had 22 species including four species of woodpeckers, several sparrow species, three warblers, and lost tanager. My wife first saw the Western Tanager early this week. I was working at the time and missed the first sighting. And then the second and even third sighting. Finally, a day later I was able to see it. Then we went a couple of days of not seeing it. It doesn't seem to have a regular cycle yet so we were happy to see it come back this morning and it showed off for several minutes.
We have a lot of Yellow-rumped Warblers throughout the winter and usually one or two Pine Warblers hanging out. This Orange-crowned Warbler is a infrequent visitor.
And this morning we had a lot of Eastern Bluebirds at the feeder. It is not uncommon to see a couple of them around but usually far back in the yard or on the edge of the marsh. So 5 at the feeder is quite the sight. We loved the variation in blue between the male and female. Her blue was such a wonderful sky blue. And note the Pine Warbler that decides it wants in the photo action too.
