Today was a good day for birds in the garden. Hummingbirds buzzed around, catching insects on the wing, then stopped by their favorite flowers for a sip of nectar. Scrub jays sipped from the fountain, mockingbirds flitted through the branches, a black phoebe paused in the tree and two bewick’s wrens chased each other across the garden… and this female black-headed grosbeak stopped by for a drink.
This should not be a surprise, since the garden was designed to support insects and birds.
Today’s birds
- Bushtits, eating bugs on plants
- anna’s hummingbirds, eating bugs in the air, drinking nectar
- scrub jays, foraging and drinking
- black phoebe, snatching bugs
- wrens, territorial stuff
- black-headed grosbeak, foraging and drinking
- mockingbirds, foraging
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