We’re apparently facing the end of our good weather so my birding activities will probably be curtailed somewhat.  However I sat in the yard for a couple of hours yesterday (10/9/2014) and had some very nice visitors.

I had no sooner moved to the yard than a Hutton’s vireo, a first-time visitor to the yard just a couple of weeks ago, flew down to one of the water features.  I managed a good many photos before it flew and disappeared from the yard.

My next set of interesting birds were a family of Red crossbills, consisting of an adult male, an adult female and three juveniles, one male and two females.

The juvenile male couldn’t get enough of the watercourse on the family visit and, unusual for these birds, he remained and took a long bath by himself.

That about does it for the rarer birds, but I also got some nice photos of a Red-breasted nuthatch, one of which I’ll include here…

I have a backlog of photos for the blog that I took earlier this week but have not completely processed.  I’ll try to post some of them this next weekend.