In the few days I have between Gulf trips the most perfect fall weather has blessed the garden. As I posted, new plantings and scaping have been in the works, but equally as joyful has been the attraction of visitors - avians - some just passing through, others have become as permanently passionate about the garden as I.My office window faces the sunrise, overlooking the back garden and a scattering of bird feeders hanging like pendants off the porch and maples. Every dawn the garden is alive with song and chittering, and wings flashing in the first flickers of sunlight through the bamboo. Little lives reminding me I share this space and with each new maple and moss I introduced.
For those who follow this blog with mixed passions - love for birds and bushes - here is a list of garden visitors this past week, plus one mystery warbler and a flycatcher that eluded me in hide-n-seek:
- Black-headed Grosbeak (Pheucticus melanocephalus)
- Cedar Waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum)
- Rufous Hummingbird (Selasphorus rufus)
- House Finch (Carpodacus mexicanus) - pictured
- Lesser Goldfinch (Carduelis psaltria) - pictured
- American Goldfinch (Carduelis tristis)
- Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis)
- Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia)
- Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus)
- Golden-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia atricapilla)
- Rufous-Sided Towhee. (Pipilo erythrophthalmus)
- Bushtit (Psaltriparus minimus)
- Western Scrub Jay (Aphelocoma californica)
- Western Tanager, (Piranga ludoviciana)
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Regulus calendula)
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