My first sighting of this bird - the ash-throated flycatcher!
It was in a back part of the lower orchard next to a stand of redwood trees where one of the few, small, grove of apple trees still remain - and an area rarely walked through by anyone.
There's a very light gray coloring from the throat down to the chest, and then the color changes to a warm buff. This must explain the somewhat poetic "ash" part of its name.
Ash-throated flycatcher
Anna's hummer in the old orchard, where a small group of the old apple trees still stand.
The scene at the grevillea hedge for the Allen hummers is pretty quiet, all the action now is adjacent to it along a fence where a large vine of honeysuckle is in bloom.
Allen's watching over the honeysuckle are sitting farther away (from my camera), in a eucalyptus tree.
Intoxicating honeysuckle vine in bloom, near old orchard
Acorn Woodpecker face peering from nest at the top of large, dead pine tree near house.
This might be the nestling, since it let me get pretty close. The adults always take off very quickly as I approach.
The recently fledged lesser goldfinch, back yard near the feeders, enjoying morning sunlight.
PACIFIC SLOPE FLYCATCHER Another flycatcher, this one is very small, and very elusive (the Pacific Slope flycatcher).
Found him or her sitting among the lower branches of the old apple trees, in the lower orchard, early evening light.
Often gives a two-toned whistle call, the Pacific Slope flycatcher
GOLDFINCH This goldfinch in the backyard has acquired quite a taste for the sunflower seeds.
Goldfinch at the backyard sunflower feeder
Ah, another peanut eater, the band tailed pigeon