The local Bird Bar.....

Confession time.....

We love birds....

We love feeding the birds....

watching the birds...

listing the types of birds we've seen...

photographing the birds in our yard...

but we're not "birders"....not really.

It's just that we can't help ourselves.

They are so darned cute,

never mind that those 

Hussy Mourning doves eat their flippin' heads off....

then perch on a tree just above our cars and then proceed to .....

well, you know.

I'm trying to think of something to 

make them "mourn" just a bit less.

The Carolina Wren is our favorite.

She sings with such abandon,

or is that determination?

Anyway,

my sweetie lost his mother years ago,

and when a CW appears, 

he smiles, because he is pretty darn sure she has come back as

a Carolina Wren....smiles.

So,

when we were sitting out on the front porch a few afternoons ago,

and glanced a happy CW on our feeder,

I snuck inside to grab my camera.

Here is looks as though she is inside of the suet cage.... 

She even stopped talking when she noticed the focusing light...

So, in reality, she was merely on the opposite side of the cage, not in it... 

Any angle will dooo.....

Look at her tongue!

And that white eye liner!

Just one or two tail feathers out of place...

But her cap is finely preened...

Now she might be getting just a bit miffed that we are watching her eat... 

Who else is watching?

Make no difference, as long as I control the suet, she says...

Wonder if it is sweeter on this side?

Whoops! Did she fall off?

Later in the afternoon, the clouds rolled in, so I took up a position inside..

so that I might catch a shot of the speed racer, the chickadee....

Almost, but 

perhaps a finch will do...

no?

There she is!

Checkin up on us, maybe?

Don't know what type of bird this is....but do you see it there on the ground?

Perhaps, all you see is the eye...right in the center of the shot. 

Ms. Carolina Wren loves to peck around in the crouch of this Bradford Pear Tree,

see her on the right?

And how lucky was I?

to see both the Chickadee and the Woodpecker on the same tree?

This tree looks as though he has a bad attitude...maybe because he shot his eye out....

 One more look at the finch...

And of course, CW....

A Nuthatch...

And finally, my chickadee...

thank you for indulging me...

smiles.