The good weather continues as do my bird sightings in the yard.  I spent the major part of Sunday afternoon in the yard and was rewarded with multiple sightings of three different species of warblers (Townsend’s, Yellow-rumped and Orange-crowned) as well as multiple visits from Red crossbills.

One or more Townsend’s warblers made two extended, widely separated visits to the yard.  One occurred just after I began observing shortly after noon and the other in the middle of the afternoon shortly after returning to the yard from my second nap of the day!  I was able to take many, many good photos of the warbler(s).  These sightings bring the number to three for the year, and that’s three times the number of sightings we’ve had in any other year.

We also had visits from one or more Orange-crowned warblers…

and visits from at least two Yellow-rumped warblers.

The Red crossbills were also active with visits from one or more males and one or more juveniles.