Patty spotted this one, "there's a kinglet taking a bath in the garden!", she called from the living room.
But the downside of having a wall that is all window is, as noted in a prior post, that the critters can see you. Thus, since I'm a bit bigger than them, they tend, if birds, to fly away.
Luckily, while I spooked it from the birdbath it didn't go far, perching on branch between two of the triple stumps. Conveniently (again by design) just outside the kitchen window. And I shot away.
As the Cornell All About Birds site puts it, "A tiny bird seemingly overflowing with energy, the Ruby-crowned Kinglet forages almost frantically through the lower branches of shrubs and trees." I consider myself lucky if a get one good shot, with most just a blurred partial bird, if the bird is in the frame at all. But this one was quite cooperative as it preened after its bath.
This fellow, and it is a "fellow" as it is the males who have the ruby crown, is just passing through. A relatively short distance migrant, they breed in Canada and the northern United States, and winter in the Southern US and Mexico.
Now's the time to spot them. Sunflower seeds and mealworms are favorite foods. So top off your feeders and keep a weather eye out for them.
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