Bird Watching: DAILY PICS - Vol. 294, 1 by sacarvounis

sacarvounis wrote:
Love the opening shot for this thread, Linth....nice composition!
Hack....love all of the water birds. Looks like that CG was thinking about charging you!
Gardenpom....you're so lucky to have painted buntings; never seen one here :(
Nice shot of that Coopers, Burd. I have a Sharp-shinned and a Coopers around but I can never get my camera in my hand fast enough to snap them. And if I go out in the yard, they disappear.

We are expecting more snow tonight so the yard has been hopping. The light isn't so great right now...I'll wait until later. My group of 4 bluebirds went down to 2 last week with much courting behavior and nestbox inspecting etc. Now, there is another female in the yard. Can't tell if she is one of the daughters or a different female but these 2 girls are fighting over the food and the box like crazy. He sits off to the side and stays out of it....LOL

Here's the 2nd female: