After several weeks of refreshing our new hummingbird feeder with nectar and monitoring it as best as a busy person can, we caught a customer taking a drink.
birds
Tree hugger
For all the hard work and preparation that sometimes is required to get pleasing images of wild life, there are days when you get out of your car in your driveway and you have a picture. This was one of those days: after running into the house and grabbing the camera, this pileated woodpecker kept at work on one of our trees.
Sparrow in the rough
A chipping sparrow wanders the grounds along the driveway.
Blackbird on the bog
On the Smithfield Plantation (land reserved as a nature conservancy in Litchfield, ME), there is swampy bog where this blackbird always appears during the summer season to get his picture taken.
Nuthatch meal time
After waiting twenty minutes for some action on the far bog, this white-breasted nuthatch showed up. After checking out this old, dead tree, he found some food as I prayed for him to get out of the shadows.
Hummingbird visit
Mom brings dinner
Our friends in Maryland have maintained a birdhouse for bluebirds for years. Apparently if one doesn’t keep the birdhouse clean, the bluebirds stay away and field sparrows take up residence.
Cardinal at the old mill
A lady cardinal visits the bird feeders at the Eden Mill Nature Center (Pylesville MD)
Bog visitor
Another local inhabitant cruises the bog for food. This is probably a savannah sparrow but I am still researching. His distinctive belly color pattern should help me narrow it down.
Blackbird in the bog
I had a very productive weekend. We ended up capturing a pleasing variety of birds. Here we found a red-wing blackbird at the Smithfield Plantation bog. Every year they endlessly survey this swampland for food.
john's f-stop 
