Baby birds all over the place.
First the woodpecker, back visiting as a teenager, demanding bugs, chittering for his parents.
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The raven babies were discernible only by the baby talk. Finally they are acquiring more words than the boring repetitive "cawk". Now they also have a high pitched "cawk" as well. And they are working on a dog barking.
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The mocking bird baby is building vocabulary, too.
The one song is now two, working on a third.
Once we counted 36 different calls from the adult!
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The quail babies are currently quiet, but the father is scolding constantly when we try to water the hedgerow where they feel safe.
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The yellow and red finches are simply finches and they beep, beep, beep nonstop, swinging around on the thistle seed socks and twirling with the doves on the columnar bird feeder..
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The three hummingbirds, up from only one last year, buzz us with high clicky chip, chips if we wander too near the feeders.
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I don't know why they robins live at the neighbors, just across the fence. Maybe they prefer the diggings under the huge oak. And the Great Blue Heron sits in their field pouncing on gophers when our yard desperately needs his services.
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Hawks screaming, pivoting quickly to avoid the aggressive ravens and swallowtails. Swallowtails popping back into the high nesting boxes.
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Vultures are tipping up in the thermals only drifting down over the fields once in a while, shadows moving across the lawn.
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The blue jays yell loudly, "Ehh, ehh!" slamming the sunflower seeds hard on the stump to crack it, then furiously wiping, back and forth, their beaks to clean up.
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And of course the ubiquitous towees chipping loudly and constantly.
What a racket!
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We sigh with joy.
The silly video camerawoman can't hold still.
Nor be quiet.
Success; by steathily hiding in the bushes, we catch a sneaky raven on film!
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