A Black-and-white Warbler came to the bubbler for a couple of quick baths this morning. There’s also life high in the trees behind our yard. Here are two photos from the past week:
Monthly Archives: November 2016
November 20, 2016
First Eastern Phoebe of the season in our back yard. Just one last usual fall visitor has yet to make an appearance: an Orange-crowned Warbler.
November 19, 2016
First American Goldfinch (adult female) of the season in our back yard, at the cylinder seed feeder. After I saw her, I put up a feeder with sunflower chips in the pergola.
And in the afternoon, a Yellow-throated Warbler made the first appearance I’ve ever seen in our back yard:
November 8, 2016
First Ruby-crowned Kinglet of the season in our back yard, at the mixed-nut feeder.
November 4, 2016
We were in Tucson for a long weekend spanning from the end of October to the beginning of November. We saw some birds we’d seen there almost two years ago: Cactus Wrens, a Black-tailed Gnatcatcher, a Vermilion Flycatcher, Verdins, Gila Woodpeckers, and Gilded Flickers. We also saw some new birds this time: a few Pyrrhuloxias, a Say’s Phoebe, Rock Wrens, a Ladder-backed Woodpecker, a Curve-billed Thrasher, several Greater Roadrunners, plus a pink-sided Dark-eyed Junco and a Chipping Sparrow. And there were birds familiar to Florida: House Finches, Northern Mockingbirds, Red-tailed Hawks, a Loggerhead Shrike. We saw these birds on short walks at Saguaro National Park (east) and Molino Basin, on Mt. Lemmon.
We also went to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, where a funny thing happened on our way to see the 2:00 p.m. Raptor Free Flight show: My better half spotted two Cooper’s Hawks with prey up in a tree.
On our first day back in Jacksonville, I saw the season’s first Hermit Thrush in our back yard, taking a series of baths in the bubbler in the late afternoon as the light was fading. It is good to go, and it is good to come back.