The Birds Return!

We finally had a few birds at our feeders.  Birds have been almost absent from the garden all summer long and there were very few birds last winter either, so I've been hoping to see some this year.  A week ago or so we had both a Nuthatch and a Chickadee, and I was able to get acceptable photos.

The Red-breasted Nuthatches are easy to recognize with the black and white stripes on their head, with a orangey red breast.  

And of course there's that tendency for nuthatches to pose upside-down which is a dead give-away!

The Chickadee is our most common bird during the winter.  We usually see a small flock of 5 or 6 Chickadees stopping by once or twice a day, though only during the winter.  I have the impression that these small flocks follow a route from feeder to feeder each day, moving around the neighbourhood.  We'll see if that develops this year.

We've seen Chickadees and a small flock of Juncos in the ten days since I took these photos.