One good bird deserves another
Feb. 11th, 2014 09:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceIn the Church of Coffee, it must be the laity that adds the cream. I am just sayin'.
But I came home from coffee club, and was standing at the kitchen window brewing coffee - and the feeding station was an explosion of birds: at the seed feeder, at the water dish and on the table, even (at last!) pecking at the seed bell. Mostly what we have decreed to be house finches, but a hummer also came by while I was watching - and this other bird, which I think has a black head and dark grey back, maybe lighter on the chest, and big white flashes on the sides of its head. Help?
...And if you're getting tired of helping, which is the best resource, the best field guide for Californian birds? And should I be looking for a website or an actual y'know book, which works better when you're starting from nothing and have poor eyesight anyway, even if you weren't looking through the mesh of an insect screen?
But I came home from coffee club, and was standing at the kitchen window brewing coffee - and the feeding station was an explosion of birds: at the seed feeder, at the water dish and on the table, even (at last!) pecking at the seed bell. Mostly what we have decreed to be house finches, but a hummer also came by while I was watching - and this other bird, which I think has a black head and dark grey back, maybe lighter on the chest, and big white flashes on the sides of its head. Help?
...And if you're getting tired of helping, which is the best resource, the best field guide for Californian birds? And should I be looking for a website or an actual y'know book, which works better when you're starting from nothing and have poor eyesight anyway, even if you weren't looking through the mesh of an insect screen?