Susan Getgood's personal blog
I’m fairly certain momma and poppa cardinal, who live in our yard year round, had at least two babies, and brought them both to the bird feeder today.
I think we have a female baby top right.
And earlier this afternoon I think I snapped the male baby.
More pictures from the series on Flickr. Momma cardinal is particularly suspicious of the squirrel.
I love photographing the birds who visit our backyard, and once the flowers bloom, I start messing around with different ways of looking at the garden. This week, I was also experimenting with the new lens 
Here’s a selection of recent pics.
The turkey, who we nicknamed Drumstick, hasn’t been around for a couple weeks. I hope he found his flock rather than an untimely end.
Finches in Vermont, Memorial Day Weekend
Plus one random child photo 🙂
Hummingbirds are known to be a bit territorial. Both at home in Massachusetts and at our house in Vermont (where we are this weekend), when I put the hummingbird feeders out every year, we definitely see evidence of this. Two males vie for ownership of the territory and we get amazing displays of hummingbird flight.
But the guy above, who I photographed yesterday, gives new meaning to the term establishing territory. He’ll sit on the arm of the feeder pole for five, maybe 10 minutes at a time. Just daring any other males to try and eat from this feeder.
More pictures on Flickr.
