What do you do when Christmas is over and there are no more twinkling lights to take your mind off of the gray winter and spring is still a few months away?
I love to watch the birds that visit our backyard. I have high hopes of catching a glimpse of mountain blue birds, blue jays or red cardinals, but sadly they don't visit my back yard. I think I live in the wrong place or have the wrong kinds of foods for some of those birds. But I still see few different kinds of birds just looking out my living room window. Just a while ago I saw a really pretty black bird with red on its wings and breast who came to eat berries from my Virginia creeper. It flew off before I could get a good picture of him. How rude! He eats off my plants and didn't even let me take a picture of him. We also have hundreds of house finches that hang around our back yard, but they blend in too well with the trees to get good pictures of them.
Here are some birds that visit our back yard.
This is a Northern Flicker. One of the more rare birds that I saw in my back yard
The Red Robin. They usually come late December and stay until early February.
These are European Starlings. They have a pretty green tint to their feathers. Just the other day one of them flew right into our window and I thought he was dead, but after sitting there for a few minutes he flew off.
I don't know the name of these birds. I don't see them very often and I looked through the Idaho bird identification web page but could not positively identify them.
We have about seven Doves that live in our backyard. We used to have only two but I think that word got out that we have chickens and they can eat our chicken feed.
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