Our first backyard Spotted Towhee!


Our first backyard Spotted Towhee!


Sunflower seeds ready to be eaten by backyard birds. Bet the scrub jays will cache them all.
California fuchsias still blooming, and that makes our hummingbirds very pleased.


Grapes are now turning to raisins but the birds still love them.
Mockingbird.
Mockingbirds enjoying our grapes (these cultivated California native grapes are for the birds!).


Mockingbirds love our cultivated native grapes 🥰 It’s the best seeing them swallow a large grape whole. We’ve seen at least five in our backyard. They mostly get along. We have a kind of neutral zone
Western redbud has to share soil with a bird planted sunflower.
This morning, two Northern Mockingbirds briefly hung out on our backyard patio. It seems super rare to see a pair of them.
White Crown borb soaking in the warmth of a cinder block & preening outside the slider.


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