Solstice Birds

Birds seen today and yesterday at my father's. (Yes, I'm on vacation, hence the sparse posting...) A nice selection!

A Carolina chickadee


A mockingbird who lives in this holly bush


A Carolina wren


There are two wrens - here's one on the Christmas basket


A red-bellied woodpecker


A female Eastern bluebird


A hermit thrush


The yard was swarming with finches. Here is a pair of house finches


A male house finch (red) and a juvenile, probably male, goldfinch


A female house finch (the big one) and a juvenile goldfinch


Three goldfinches, two adults and a streaky juvenile


A handsome American goldfinch


And a very nice juvenile American goldfinch


Here's the female rufous-sided towhee. The male was around but I couldn't get even a halfway decent shot of him.


Here's a brown thrasher


And here he is with breakfast


A visitor from Canada - a white-throated sparrow


A male house finch


A tiny female downy woodpecker


Another winter visitor, a darkeyed junco


A very handsome male American goldfinch


Redbird! (the northern cardinal)


A Carolina wren


A redbellied woodpecker


A song sparrow


A tufted titmouse


A northern (yellow-shafted) flicker


And a small, plump yellow-bellied sapsucker