Participant Photo: Birds of Our Backyard

This collection of birds was captured as I stood across the deck from where they sit in the tree and in the Blackberry bushes waiting to come to our feeders. We have counted 31 different birds that visit us throughout the year, and yesterday, we had our first predatory hawk, the Coopers swoop down for the first time into the tree for the past 2 years. The Coopers had an active nest this year, as we witnessed 4 or 5 of the found out with mom learning how to hunt at the edges of the woods.