[Tuscaloosa Goldfinch]

Here's a picture I took this week -- not very clear because I enlarged it and cropped it -- ...

We usually only have ruby throats here but I don't think that's what this one is.

[rustbucket]

Here is a ruby-throat hovering outside our kitchen window. This is in the shadow of the house, so I wasn't able to stop the wings in the photo. Either that or he was doing some high speed hovering.

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

Been awhile since I've posted here, but with all the winter birds coming in to my feeders, I thought about all of you. A few weeks ago my husband took out the window in our livingroom and we put in a big patio door. OOHHHH, I have seen so many more different birds then I ever did. Here is a list of what I've seen so far:

Titmouse, chickadees, cardinals, nuthatches, downey woodpeckers, red breasted wood peckers, bluejays, brown creeper, carolina wren, American gold finch, juncos, sparrows.

Yesterday I had a goldfinch hit the door and knock himself out. I picked him up, tooks a picture, then put him in the tree in my garden where he was safe, (the cat was in the house), and about 15 minutes later he flew off:)

When I first picked him up he couldn't even hold his head up. He just laid in my hand, I didn't think he would make it, but then sat up.

Here's looking out my new patio window door. Every morning while I drink my coffee, I sit in front of it and watch the birds. I have added a bird bath since taking this picture. They really seem to like it alot.

Becky