not sure where to start, so we'll start with the first bird we saw...a Song Sparrow and note the berries of the Red-Osier Dogwood, not quite ripe although there were some that are.
and speaking of Song Sparrows....here is a fledgling one.
there were a lot of Spotted Towhee and couldn't get over the amount of Black Hawthorne fruit....not quite ripe here, they will be black when ripe, hence the name. It doesn't seem that long since I was taking pictures of the flowers.
lots of White-crowned Sparrows too, this one in a Himalayan Blackberry bush....lots of berries to come.
this Downy Woodpecker must have just had a bath....
there were a lot of Bullock's Orioles but didn't manage a photo of any of them, however the above is an Oriole nest, and from the noise, occupied by a bunch of youngsters. Orioles are one of the species where both parents and even siblings from the previous season help to raise the youngsters.
and it wasn't just birds.....the blue is called Viper's Bugloss....a strange name for a pretty plant that bees love. The yellow, of course, is a type of dandelion.
this is one I don't know, but am trying to find out...
well this is the common and well known Pink Spirea, also known as Hardhack...
and then this evening I was admiring the scene where there was a Bald Eagle perched on a log with some Canada Geese in the foreground....it wasn't until I downloaded the photos that ....
I noticed that the eagle had a fish....a good sized fish! Pretty impressive.
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