Baby Birds!!!! I love the season of baby bird cuteness. And many of those pictures are from my neighborhood and prove that you don't need to travel to experience wildlife.
These birds all have more than a million sightings on eBird, what were you thinking submitting them to a dumb niche hipster poll??? Joking aside, these birds were definitely too popular to get into the poll itself. Please vote for your favorite here!
There are 37 confirmed bird species on my list, that I've seen visiting in our yard. Here are few visitors from today (April 19th, 2024) and my newest confirmed bird species, Dunnock (Rautiainen) is in the last photo! 🥰
Other birds in the photos are a young Blackbird (nuori Mustarastas), Blue tit (Sinitiainen), Eurasian chaffinch (Peippo) and European robin (Punarinta).
We also had Western jackdaws (Naakkoja), Eurasian siskins (Vihervarpusia), Willow tits (Hömötiaisia), Great tits (Talitiaisia), Eurasian tree sparrows (Pikkuvarpusia), at least one Common redpoll (Urpiainen) and a Great spotted woodpecker visiting us today. Oh and I also saw a Fieldfare (Räkättirastas) and a Redwing (Ounakylkirastas) pecking under bushes nearby our house. 😁
I stood a moment outside close by the birdfeeder (apple tree) and just enjoyed watching and listening all the birds. Lovely day untill it started snowing again ❄️❄️❄️ Poor birds that came here too early from someplace warm. It is cold out there now, when it's -4°C and the wind makes it feel much colder than it is. 🥶🙁