Bird moment

Just for me but I don’t have anyplace else special for it right now.

In the yard, right now. A few dozen robins. The biggest flock that’s ever visited. They’re going between the redcedars and the California laurel. A couple cedar waxwings are mingling with them. Very energetic crowd. Also–

• Dark-eyed junkos.
• Black capped and chestnut-backed chickadees.
• Two northern red-shafted flickers.
• Ruby-crowned kinglet.
• House finches (purple, though we get the yellow variant sometimes).
• And a first for the yard: American Goldfinch. Not a bit of gold on him though. If he weren’t sitting still for so long and I didn’t have Sibley’s nice drawings of the various plumages, I never would have figured it out.

You can see a small subset of the robins—seven of them—going to town here below. They’ve had a couple of varied thrushes with them the last few times but I didn’t see them if they were there today.