I’m going to digress a little from the subject of our local birds to highlight some photographs I took in early November, when I was having my Adobe Lightroom problems. These first photos were taken at the Randall Davey Audubon Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico.  I’ve found that location an excellent place to photograph birds, although their feeders, feeder contents, feeder locations, etc. leave a lot to be desired.

These first two photographs are of the Pink-sided race of Dark-eyed juncos, the most numerous birds at the Center.  The juncos there, as here with our Oregon race of juncos, seem to have significant variation in coloration.

On this particular trip I was able to photograph both a Stellar’s jay…

and a Western Scrub jay…

And one of my favorites from the Center is always the White-breasted nuthatch…