When I went out to sit and read in the yard yesterday, I remembered my personal
dictum - always a camera, and grabbed one.
Soon, I was watching a little bird moving around in the Jasmine on our front wall. The way it moved and the eyebrow
reminded me of nuthatches. But it wasn't the local red-breasted variety, and it's voice was different. I know I've seen
White breasted Nuthatches in the East, but couldn't remember much about them.
100 mm wasn't very long for this, but I caught it well enough to be recognizable, and figured I'd check later. Back in
the house later, I remembered the Cornell Ornithology Lab beta bird ID page. <http://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/photo-id>
My image was pretty poor, small bird with shadows across it in a big frame, but I cleaned it up fairly decently and I
saved a 100% crop to drag onto the bird ID site. <http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=19576>
Voila! It's a Bewick's Wren. I've not noticed one here before, but they are apparently common in Calif. The way it was
nosing around, I wonder if it was looking for a nesting site. Or maybe just looking for bugs to eat. :-)
New Friend Moose
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