Birding at Home

Backyard birds provide great entertainment when we aren't traveling.  Here are a few of our favorites from early 2025.

New birds added on 26 April 2025

Dark-eyed Junco

A late season snow event, unusual in central North Carolina, made our feeders very popular.

A Male Northern Cardinal and a bevy of Eastern Bluebirds gathered just as the flurries started.

Snow made for treacherous conditions on the feeder roof.

Northern Cardinal

Eastern Bluebird

American Robin

A very fluffy Male Northern Cardinal

Red-shouldered Woodpecker

Downy Woodpecker

White-throated Sparrow

Dark eyed Junco

One of my favorite birds in any weather is the diminutive Tufted Titmouse.

Eastern Bluebird

After the snow melted, we cleaned out the bird bath and hooked up the dripper. Even a tiny bit of moving water can be a real bird magnet.

House Finch

Female Northern Cardinal

Male Northern Cardinal

White-throated Sparrow

Bathtime for a Brown Thrasher. 

He was very thorough!

Brown-headed Nuthatch

Face off at the feeder

House Finch and 

Brown-headed Nuthatch

Tufted Titmouse perched on the dripper.

Dark-eyed Junco

Chickadee in the bath

Male Towhee 

Female Towhee

Carolina Wren

Male Northern Cardinal

Male Rose-breasted Grosbeak

New to us, this year, is a cute Prairie Warbler

Here's the same bird after drying off from his bath.

Bluejay

Two of our most assertive resident birds; a Red-shouldered Woodpecker and an Eastern Bluebird.

The last bird for this round is a pretty little House Finch

Home is a great place to practice bird photography skills. 

All of these photos were captured through our kitchen windows using a Nikon D750 with a Nikkor 200-500 f/5.6 lens sometimes paired with a Nikkor TC-14E II teleconverter.

Editing was done in Adobe Lightroom Classic.