Male Western Bluebird with juvenile Western Bluebirds are out with their fledged young, who are flying but still need parent birds to feed them.
The juvenile bluebird has less defined coloring, better for blending into the trees and background.
Juvenile Western Bluebird, lower orchard
Juvenile bluebird with adult, in apple tree, lower orchard
Baby bluebird "parked" on utility wire while parents hunt for insects
Male Western Bluebird, at edge of tree limb, on the watch for insects of any kind.
Juvenile Western Bluebird, near the farm and the lower orchard
Top of a fence post or any other high perch, or the end of a branch, is where you will see the Western Bluebird.
Also an insect catcher Discovered this Black Phoebe while watching the bluebirds.
It was on a post, then flew to this faucet, a shop building near the farm in the lower orchard.
BLACK PHOEBE - flew back to the post, lower orchard
Orange & yellow finch, back yard
Hadn't seen one like this before!
BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAK STILL VISITING sunflower feeder
ANYONE WANTING TO O.D. ON BABY NUTHATCH PHOTOS, CHECK OUT SLIDESHOW BELOW (white-breasted nuthatch fledgling(s) visiting the back yard)