This was taken towards the middle of May, when the rose-breasted grosbeaks first started showing up.
From a single male and female pair, we now get whole bunches of them, visiting us.
This is another one of those birds local to our area that I’d never seen before until we moved back here.
A couple of photos from the last day of April; by this time, we were seeing lots of white throated sparrows visiting the feeding station.
I just love the pattern the lifted feathers are making in the second shot.
Taken in late April; the blue jays have been making it very difficult to get their pictures of late. I swear, they can tell when the camera starts to focus on them, and take off. But I got this one!
Here is another photo from late April. Our summer birds were starting to come back in quite a rush by then.
We were still putting out the deer fix mix at this point. The deer were already coming by less frequently. Now that we’re in May, we hardly see them at all. There is still evidence that they are coming by – and sometimes I see them going through the driveway gate, on the trail cam. Right now, we are getting massive crowds of these fox sparrows.
A couple of last photos taken during the snow storm in the middle of April.
The blowing snow didn’t stop these hardy little birds!
This photo was taken just days before the snow storm hit, in the middle of April.
Such a lovely, warm and sunny day.
These were taken during the snow storm we got in the middle of April.
They all look rather irritated by the weather. LOL
The Re-Farmer 