A Scarlet Tanager

If you look very closely(better if you enlarge it), you will see a red bird known as a Scarlet Tanager.
"A striking black-winged red bird, the Scarlet Tanager is a common species of the eastern forest interior. Despite its brilliant coloring it is often overlooked because of its rather secretive behavior and its preference for the forest canopy." This is from all about birds. My daughter leads a bird walk every week in the summer where she has worked for the past 4 years and she noticed this when we were in the forest. I, of course, could not see it until it had almost flown away....not a very good bird watcher am I?

Baby Robins

The robins are back in the nest that has been on top of our gazebo door for a few years. My husband keeps saying he is going to move it (due to the bird poop on the door into our gazebo) but I won't let him. I am amazed that they keep using the same nest. The mommy robin screamed at me while I was taking this shot.....pretty intensely I might add!

Not a Partridge in a Pear tree

While walking the dogs yesterday, we passed these bushes/trees and the birds were very vocal! I am not sure what kind of birds they are but I was surprised I was able to see them to snap them.

Mommy robin

 

Earlier in the summer, we had a robin's nest over our gazebo door. We moved it so the nesting material wouldn't keep falling on us as we walked in after they left the nest. We now have another nest in the same place and baby robins again. I need Abe here to take some photos cause the digital ain't doing it for me!(click on the picture to enlarge and see it better.)