Got a little spoiled with how gorgeous it was the last week or so. The cold, gray, rainy stuff is kind of sad. Not entirely, though. It's adding to my nesting jones. Feel as if I must Bake All The Things! and make the house pretty. Also looking at holiday plans. We currently have no T-day plans and are open to options ( Read more... )

Which means the birdies are here!

This is a female ruby-crowned kinglet (females don't have the red bit on their heads.) I've seen these around before, but always mistook them for sparrows or some sort of weird chickadee. She's been hanging around our back hedge in the last few days, which makes me think she has a nest there.


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Yep, they're still around, and for the first time, I saw one of these lovelies poking around the yard:


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More backyard bird porn this morning as we sat out there having breakfast. Sadly, no pics of my own this time as I forgot to grab the camera, but we saw a couple of new ones that hadn't been around before:

Cedar Waxwing (saw two of these together)


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If my fascination with this keeps up, I'm gonna need a better camera. I like the 15x digital zoom on mine, but it's just not quite the same as having a real lens to get better distance shots.

The shots I've gotten so far:

American Goldfinch


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