Had a busy twenty minutes today in the garden this morning with birds flapping all over the place including Yellow-rumped Warblers (about twenty) and a nice Blackburnian amongst the regulars.
Almost every bird was there because of the presence of the pond and waterfall – worth all the effort of installing because they certainly attract the migrators as well as the residents.
Pictures do the job better than words – click the thumbnails for decent sized images.
- Yellow-rumped Warbler
- A pair of Yellow-rumps
- Blackburnian and Yellow-rumped Warblers
- Blackburnian and Yellow-rumped Warblers
- Yellow-rumps demonstrating why the water is attractive to them
- Northern Cardinal male in the Redbud tree
- Song Sparrow
- American Robin
- Song Sparrow
- Song Sparrow
- Northern Cardinal in pagoda dogwood tree
- No garden bird gallery would be complete at this time of year without a Grackle to grace it.