Common birds around the house

One thing for sure, this blog will include all kinds of birds, common birds as well as rare birds if ever I'm so lucky to be blessed with the fortune of photographing one or several. Perhaps one day as my northern bird geography gets more polished, there'll be increased accounts of the harder to see birds.

Which best place to start birding other than your own backyard? On the morning of our second day of our arrival we were greeted by many calls rather different than that of our former home. It took a while after some furtive lurking around the little backyard woods that these new birds presented themselves.

From the top : Wood Pigeon, House Sparrow (male), Blackbird, Magpie, House Sparrow (female)