Jeff & Konnor's Blog

An increasingly rare event in our backyard -- capturing photos of bird species that we don't already have photos of. This is a ruby-crowned kinglet. Odds are that we've seen this type of bird in the backyard before, but didn't know it. In fact, in this case we thought we were taking pictures of finches eating seeds from our rudbeckia seed heads. When we pulled up the pictures on the computer, though, we saw the small bit of red on the bird's head, which sent us to our trusty Sibley Guide to Birds.