Favorite Bird: Eastern Blue Bird
size/shape: sl smaller than Robin, round shape; blue on top, orange belly with some white under tail; prefers sitting along garden edge in tall bushes, trees; spring/summer visitors to our Catoctin Mountains woodlands with established tall trees and open edges each year; Southern Canada through middle, eastern, southern USA; messy combination of chirps
Activity (3): three birds looking for food
Northern Cardinal: at suet feeder, searching for bugs in bushes
E. Towhee: ground feeder under trees/bushes, foraging in leaf litter
Downy woodpecker: at suet feeder, feeding on insect on tree bark
Activity 2: (3) birds - same colors
1. Dark Eyed Junco: black eyes, gray on top, white belly light colored beak
2. Brown Headed Cowbird: Gray brown all over, gray beak, white next to head
3. White Breasted Nuthatch: White face, black cap, blue-gray upper body