If you’ve read my recent blog posts you’ve heard me repeatedly grouse (pun intended) about the lack of more interesting birds in the yard. Today (8/11/2019) I made some progress!

First, a male Wilson’s warbler entered the yard and, unlike my last such visitor, this one utilized several staging perches, including a madrone tree. He gave me many opportunities for photographs, two of which I’m displaying below.

Later in the afternoon I discovered a juvenile Hutton’s vireo, the second I’ve seen in the yard this summer. It was a lucky identification of this bird because there were almost a dozen Pine siskins flying around the yard as well as American goldfinches, House finches and House sparrows. (Note the downward curve at the end of the beak, something you are unlikely to note with the naked eye or even with binoculars.)

And just to fill up the post, I’m going to add a few more of the 188 photos I took in the yard today.