Titles are the hardest part

Baby bird mania is happening in the yard and the trees right now. Over the weekend, we saw many new birds making their way to the feeders, under close supervision of a parent.

I'm going to break up the weekend sightings into a few posts since there were so many of them.

We saw a baby cardinal with a female cardinal at the seed feeders. Last year we didn't see a baby cardinal until August, so perhaps they have more than one cycle in the summer like the robins. The baby cardinals are quite pale. We only saw one on this particular day. I remember that last year we saw three babies together. The first two pics are the baby cardinal on it's own and the third shows him/her with some cowbirds that were feeding in the same area.




and mother cardinal was nearby keeping an eye out.



We also saw a baby male Downey Woodpecker being fed by a female Downey- very cute! The baby woodpeckers make a very loud "peep! peep!", so we usually hear them before we see them.





Time to stretch these things out!