[Mama_Bear]

Pinging a few FRiends to a brand new, hot off the camera, photo of a new visitor to my back yard.....a Black Phoebe. I am always excited when a new type of bird shows up and I have never seen one of these pretty little flycatchers before.

Here is a better photo I found on the internet...

Of course, my new little black and white avian visitor is not an exhibitionist and PEST like my jays who immediately spotted me and demanded a peanut.....

Then the dogs came charging out to see what was so interesting in the back yard and scared the Black Phoebe off. The Jays have no fear of the dogs and stayed around for another peanut. I hope my Phoebe returns.

Have a nice weekend, y'all. :-)

[luvie]

That’s great! I have never seen one...and we don’t even get
bluejays!

Sparrows and grackles. Ugh!

[JustAmy]

How exciting.

We get a yellow bird once or twice in the spring. I can never get its picture.

I love the new birds .... mostly we get sparrows, mocking birds, crows and the patio finches. Once in a while we see a Robin or a Jay.

[Billie]

Have never heard of a Black Phoebe - neat name, pretty bird!

[grannie9]

Oh I just love birds, and I have so many around here. Every once in a while I have to get the bird books out and look one up.

My daughter is so jealous of all the birds in our yard. I saw two Mocking Birds raise their little ones this summer, and I realized something that I never knew. They never did their singing once they had the babies, only the warning sounds, but once they left the nest they started to sing again. I thought they sang all the time. Dummy me. ;)

I have never seen that bird before, and even the Jay looks different than ours. Ours have a crown on them. Thanks for the pics, I enjoyed them.

[jaycee]

Hi Lori, I dearly love that little darling phoebe. Hope it builds around you there. Then we can get our reports on the babies, etc. LOL~~~

[MEG33]

I love seeing your bird pictures...(well any picture you take, really!)
I am like a kid if I see a new bird visitor.