Okay, so I'm not really writing much. But I am alive to the excitement of spring and the return of a wide variety of birds to our yard. If you go to the Backyard Birds page of this site, you'll see two new photos. The first is a Chipping Sparrow, a fairly common bird but so clean and beautiful that I just had to take a picture. The second is unknown, although I think I'm just being too chicken to call it a White-Throat like last year's version. I love the little bits of yellow on its head.

We're also getting lots of gold finches, robins, chicadees and juncos to make the world a happy place. So nice to see them back.

Of course, the excitement at the feeders means I am constantly checking for new arrivals. Makes it hard to focus on anything else.

Tags: Chipping Sparrow