It’s winter, and the photographic conditions in the yard are something akin to dismal.  However from time to time I give it a try anyway.  Such was the case on Mon, 3/3/2014 when I huddled under our generous overhanging eave to keep my camera out of the mist and photographed some of the birds in the yard.

My objective was to get photos of a couple of our rarer birds, the Slate-colored Dark-eyed junco…

and the Varied thrush.

We also had visits from a Spotted towhee…

and a Song sparrow …

And here is one more view of the Slate-colored junco, a species that has been visiting our yard for at least the past six winters.  While I haven’t seen them at the same time, I think we probably have two that visit the yard due to different coloring.  (See 2/27/2014 post.)