It’s always a difficult decision as to what to post to my blog.  I take a lot of photos, generally every day, and I can either wait to post through the backlog or post the day’s photos immediately.  I had a good day today and so have decided to post today’s photos.

We had, for this year, an unusual visitor today.  A male Wilson’s warbler, which I usually consider the most numerous in our location, fly through the yard twice this afternoon.  The first time I saw it I was without my camera, but it returned about 20-30 minutes later when I was prepared.  It flew across and around the yard several times but never landed long enough for me to get even a single photograph.  : (

However, while I sat in the yard one of the Black-headed grosbeak juveniles raised in the area came closer to me (and my camera) than one had ever come before.  As a result I obtained several very good photographs, two of which I’m showing you here.

This year we’ve had one, and sometimes two, Townsend’s chipmunks in the yard.  (We’ve also gotten very brief glimpses of a very small one scurrying under the undergrowth.

Here’s a male House finch… 

and a Black-capped chickadee.

And finally a pair of juvenile American goldfinches.