There is very little happening right now and I am also a bit busy with work, so here is just a quick little hello from a MoDo and two young Blue Jays. I hope you are having a great week. It has cooled down but is supposed to be warm again. Hopefully there is enough summer left for my tomatoes to completely ripen too.
Blue and Canadian Jays, with some of their favorite trees. The blue jay can do an incredibly accurate imitation of a red-shouldered hawk to scare smaller birds away from food sources, and the Canada jay is super bold, and as earned the nickname “camp robber” for stealing food from humans. :-)
[ID: an illustration of a smaller grey and white Canada jay above and a blue and black-barred blue jay below, both in flight, surrounded by branches, leaves, and cones from birch, spruce, oak, fir, aspen, birch, and maple trees. These are all on a blue background with snow, and are labeled in white. End.]
I put up another little fountain this year. My red paint came off and no hummers visited (so far) but it got plenty of attention, especially from the Orioles. They have the pond but all love to drink here.