Railroad
Routinely Derailed
We have some finch feeders on a pole about 6 ft. from our dining room window. We love watching the smaller birds come and go. This morning, shortly after the rain quit, my wife uttered a gasp and called me quickly to the window. On one of the perches was a brilliant blue bird - almost solid blue, with a little bit of black on the leading edges of its wings and the lower 2/3 of its tail. It's slightly larger than a goldfinch, primarily because it has a longer tail.
We consulted our Audubon guide and narrowed it down to one bird (The Mountain Bluebird) pretty quickly.....or so we thought until we found out that it's a native of the Pacific Northwest! On the same page as the Mountain Bluebird, there were two birds (Indigo Bunting and Eastern Bluebird) that looked similar to it, but not nearly enough to be examples of the bird we saw this morning.
Naturally, the batteries are dead in my camera...
We consulted our Audubon guide and narrowed it down to one bird (The Mountain Bluebird) pretty quickly.....or so we thought until we found out that it's a native of the Pacific Northwest! On the same page as the Mountain Bluebird, there were two birds (Indigo Bunting and Eastern Bluebird) that looked similar to it, but not nearly enough to be examples of the bird we saw this morning.
Naturally, the batteries are dead in my camera...