Our neighbors

I get a ridiculous amount of giggles out of our favorite neighbors, the backyard birds. We are lucky enough to live near a pond (especially because we are in a densely populated suburb), and the diversity of bird life in our neighborhood is continually surprising. My husband got me an Audubon BirdCam for Christmas in '09 so I can see what's been going on while I am at work. It is how I found out that the "starling-proof" suet feeder is anything but and how I determined that the grackle flock was still around even though I hadn't seen them in ages. Some of the smarter birds seem to be on to me, though. Busted!