Adam

Activity 1: One larger bird that showed up at my feeder was the northern flicker, which is one of the largest birds I have seen by my feeder, and in comparison, A more medium sized woodpecker with a red cap has also been seen, which is smaller than the flicker (downy woodpecker).   Activity 2: two different birds I have seen frequently this year, were both black and yellow. One was larger, and had a black cap, while the other was about 2/3 the size and had black all up and down the dorsum of the bird. the larger bird was in fact a goldfinch (american) while the smaller was a lesser goldfinch.   I was not at feeder today, but last week I saw three very different birds at feeder, one was small, and had a reddish/orange breast, and would walk down the feeder towards the ground (red-breasted nuthatch), another was small and dark headed with gray (mostly) body and hopped around the grass and rocks, and stick piles. Finally, a small brown bird with red breast and red cap loves to sit on the tray or cylindrical feeder. Activity 4: My favorite bird is the American Robin! medium sized with yellow bill, dark head, and beatiful orange breast. Likes to hop around my yard looking for earthworms, and fly to tops of trees and roofs to sing its beautiful song. Has a wonderful song which has a beautiful vibrato as well as very characteristic sounds. Common but amazing, and reminds me how much of how I love to be aware of birds around me. I have even seen a robin show up at my tray feeder on days, and it was the first bird recorded at my feeder this summer!