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TID-BITS

01/06/2010

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MY YARD BIRDS

In Youngtown, Arizona

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When leaving the house every day I would always see a bunch of small birds which I just figured were common sparrows.
With out my glasses on I never really saw them as to identify them.
One morning in January 2010 a bunch of them flew in and landed within a few feet of
where I was walking and I immediately saw they were not sparrows.
I threw some seed out to make sure they would keep coming back.
The next day I brought my camera, tri-pod, folding canvas chair home.

Early next morning I set up my camera and chair in the front yard right next to a tree so as not to be to conspicuous.
I saw or didn't see any birds. Then all the sudden as if it were magic the birds were every where. They came out of the trees and bushes
so fast I didn't even see them fly in or down to the yard grass and start eating the seed I had put out the day before.

WOW, much to my surprise they were JUNCOS. White-crown sparrows and Chipping sparrows, and a few others.

Inasmuch as the Juncos out numbered the other birds I photograph them first.

I find it very difficult to identify Juncos so I'll let you do it, OK?

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I'll call the 2 above images GRAY-headed.

According to my bird guide book this is a Gray-headed Junco

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According to my bird guide book this is a Slate-colored Junco and possibly of the Oregon race.

I could not photograph the entire yard in one image, if I did the birds would be so small you could not see them.
Using one of my tele-photos lenses I can capture one or two at a time.

The bird on the left and a bit out of focus do to not having much depth of field, is a Chipping Sparrow.

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According to my bird guide book this is a Slate-colored Junco and possibly of the Oregon race

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I could be wrong but I think this one is called a Pink-sided race.

In all I seem to have 3 types of Juncos in the yard.
These birds do not live in Arizona so I believe they are migrants from up North.

I have seen them many times at the Grand Canyon.

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This truly is not a Junco but rather a White-crowned Sparrow.

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I believe the three above images are of a Chipping Sparrow.

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Well, what do we have here,
This Mockingbird was possibly attracted by all of the other birds eating the seed I had put out

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I'll call these my 3 musketeers
They just sat there watching all of the feeding on the ground.
These are either Morning Doves or Inca Doves.

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While photographing the birds in the yard something kept buzzing around my head,
it just had to be a hummer I thought.

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I believe this to be an Annas it was to big to be a Costa's.
These are the only 2 types we have here in the winter in the Phoenix area

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As I was about to pack up and go back into the house,
this bird flew in and back out several time, finally I got a usable image.

I believe this to be a Verdin.

In all I sure had a god time getting these photos

Camera a Nikon D70s, Also I used a flash unit on the camera.

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