There have been so many new birds around this spring!  I can’t remember this variety, or this number of birds.  I have added new birds to my life list, and taken some decent photos of them.  I wanted to share the latest backyard birds with you all!

Black-Headed Grosbeak (seen May 24, 2010 at my parents’ house).  I liked his personality:

My trees have been full of Bullock’s Orioles.  I have a bunch of mulberry trees in my yard which are almost in full fruit.  The orioles come around for the berries, and I have seen them picking up things to make nests, so I am hoping that they are making nests in one of my trees.  Below are Mr. & Mrs. Oriole, and a young male by himself.

Here is a very handsome Pinyon Jay.  I hadn’t ever seen one of these before.  I think he’s lovely.  He’s smaller than the scrub jays, and bluer.   He was in my parents’ side yard on a windy afternoon.  You can see the wind ruffling his feathers in the third photo:

My yard has also been flooded with Western Tanagers lately.  I have seen one of these before, but there have been at least five in the trees.  They are not very mellow – they hop all over the place, and are hard to photograph.  However, when they do hold still, they are beautiful!

Thanks for checking out my latest birds!