The photo processing software that I use allows me to rate each image.  The ratings I assign are mostly subjective but do have somewhat of a technical basis.  I came up with some good images today so I’m going to post some of the images I rated as a ‘5’, my highest rating.

In no particular order…

A Red-breasted nuthatch,  We’ve recently had young show up in the yard and patronize our feeders, on several occasions having FOUR on one of our peanut feeders at one time.

A Black-capped chickadee, which prefers deciduous trees.

A Chestnut-backed chickadee, which prefers conifers.

Male Brown-headed cowbird.

Female Brown-headed cowbird.

(Female, or less probably a juvenile) Red-winged blackbird.

Male House finch.

Male Rufous hummingbird.

Not a ‘5’ rating, but the parents of the yet-to-fledge crows located just outside the corner of our property.  “Scratch that spot right there!”