feeder, especially:
- goldfinch
- purple finch
- house sparrow
- black-capped chickadee
- junco
- tufted titmouse
- nuthatch
- mourning dove
- pigeon
- pheasant
- cardinal
- blue jay
- catbird
- cowbird
- mockingbird
- starling
- purple grackle (such a funny word!)
- cedar waxwing
- downy and hairy woodpeckers
- phoebe
- pine siskel
- rufus towhee
- hummingbird
- robin (as an afterthought!)
- blue-gray gnatcatcher
- Peregrin falcon and/or Cooper’s hawk or sharp-shinned hawk
- common grackle
- grosbeak
- bluebird
report of one wild turkey one November
overhead:
- geese
- hawks
- crow
- gulls
- raven
- bald eagle
- swallows
* * *
someday maybe I’ll know by song
all the birds that stay hidden in our treetops
