One of the things I enjoy about where we live is the variety of bird and animal life that lives in or passes through our backyard. We have seen house finches, northern flickers, red breasted nuthatches, robins, black capped chickadees, dark eyed juncos, white throated sparrows, red eyed vireos, orange crowned warblers chipping sparrows, downy woodpeckers, redpolls, common grackles, common starlings, crows, magpies, bluejays, clay coloured sparrows, house wrens, grey partridges, bohemian waxwings and even ducks with their fluffy wee entourage pass through. We have enjoyed using the birdNET app to help identify species by their vocalizations as well. Some come for the dried crabapples and berries in winter, some for the worms and insects and a few just want a bath!
The rabbits and hares come for shelter among the shrubbery and to eat dried crabapples, the coyotes come looking for the rabbits and hares, and the squirrels live here year round presumably sustaining themselves on my potatoes, raspberries and tulips that they have eaten or hidden for later consumption! One bold individual seemed to enquire of my cat as to whether her fluffy bed was for lease…! Cat replied in the negative, but wondered about the day’s menu.
…cat more alarmed by this beautiful visitor…
Everyday Cheer 