All things considered it's been pretty good here the past few days; I've seen both red and white breasted nuthatches, house finches, downies, blue jays, cardinals, robins, chickadees, kinglets, starlings and a few warblers(?) that I didn't recognize but, except for one white crowned sparrow that didn't stay, I haven't seen any boreal sparrows in my back yard this fall...and no hummers since early Sept. Boo Hoo!
Wow, I just heard an Oriole - well, ok, so it was my bird clock.
and for the record, I was in Toronto Botanical Gardens two days ago and there was a photographer waiting for hummingbirds in the herb garden, and guess what? - after a few minutes one actually showed up! My home feeder is still up; I'll leave it out until the first frost.
