Backyard birds provide great entertainment when we aren’t traveling. Here are a few of our favorites from early 2025.
Dark-eyed Junco
A late season snow event, unusual in central North Carolina, made our feeders very popular.
A Male Northern Cardinal and a bevy of Eastern Bluebirds gathered just as the flurries started.
Snow made for treacherous conditions on the feeder roof.
Northern Cardinal
Eastern Bluebird
American Robin
A very fluffy Male Northern Cardinal
Red-shouldered Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
White-throated Sparrow
Dark eyed Junco
One of my favorite birds in any weather is the diminutive Tufted Titmouse.
Eastern Bluebird
After the snow melted, we cleaned out the bird bath and hooked up the dripper. Even a tiny bit of moving water can be a real bird magnet.
House Finch
Female Northern Cardinal
Male Northern Cardinal
White-throated Sparrow
Bathtime for a Brown Thrasher.
He was very thorough!
Brown-headed Nuthatch
Face off at the feeder
Tufted Titmouse perched on the dripper.
Dark-eyed Junco
Chickadee in the bath
Male Towhee
Female Towhee
Carolina Wren
Male Northern Cardinal
Male Rose-breasted Grosbeak
New to us, this year, is a cute Prairie Warbler
Here’s the same bird after drying off from his bath.
Bluejay
Two of our most assertive resident birds; a Red-shouldered Woodpecker and an Eastern Bluebird.
The last bird for this round is a pretty little House Finch
Home is a great place to practice bird photography skills.
All of these photos were captured through our kitchen windows using a Nikon D750 with a Nikkor 200-500 f/5.6 lens sometimes paired with a Nikkor TC-14E II teleconverter.
Editing was done in Adobe Lightroom Classic.
2 responses to “Birding at Home”
That was a delightful tour!
Thank you for publishing each of these magnificent photos! Birds are such a treat to watch and listen to❤️