Pine Siskin
Little Finche’s that arrive in busy flocks and vanish just as quickly!
Goldfinch – colour is coming
Blue Jays
Tree Sparrow flocks are arriving
Mourning Dove
Another bird drawn in for an easy meal below the feeders, waiting patiently in the icy branches.
Chick-a-dee
I moved the feeder today, put up some perches including the Christmas tree, they were landing on me impatient for the feeder to be put back up, they make me laugh.
Nuthatch
Always entertaining and right behind the chick-a-dees in line for a meal.
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Look what arrived at the feeder today! In 20 years I have not seen on here on the farm until today. The ice storm seems to have had made shy birds hungry enough to risk the feeders. Put out some food, the critters appreciate it!
Rusty Blackbird #176
These birds have declined 85%-98% in the past 40 years and are listed as a “species of concern” or “vulnerable”. Their song has been compared to the grating of a rusty hinge. They have been documented feeding on sparrows, robins, and Snipe … interesting since I found this one watching a flock of Sparrows and Juncos in a hedge row.
House Sparrows
This was a busy little flock in downtown Toronto, the seemed infatuated with some loose feathers, I’m not sure why as it in October!
Chipping Sparrow #173
Most likely the most common sparrow in North America, they are small and delicate, blending into all kinds of habitats, so well that we don’t even notice them. 
White-breasted Nuthatch
While it’s cousins prefer pines, this fellow prefers deciduous tress. They are frequently at the feeders, taking the nut of the seeds and hiding them for later in the tree bark. They are always here at the farm year round, I see them often yet rarely post a photo… here we go, a fall Nutchatch at he feeder.
Red-breasted Nuthatch #172
The fall migration has had a slow start, however the birds are coming thru. The trees we full of loud birds this morning here on the farm. There are several warblers in the bushes which I can’t identify in their fall plumage and no camera in hand. This little fellow was an easy one, and new to me. It is likely passing thru and stopped for some niger seed with the Chickadees.
Cedar Waxwings – Juvenile #171
Chickadee
These clever little birds are very smart indeed. They cache food in many different sites, recalling those locations and finding the food again is not small task. So much so, their little brain actually increases in size with the information, and as the winter stores are found and memory is not needed, its brain shrinks. They are also tough little birds that will gang up on a small owl to protect its family. Fascinating.
Red Eyed Vireo #170
The Red-eyed Vireos were once considered one of the three most abundant bird of the forests of Eastern North America. Cheeful singers, they will persistently sing all day long. via iBird.
Magnolia Warbler #169
This gem moved fast, almost too fast for me to follow… I’ll just have to go back and search it out again for better pics! Shown here in fall plumage.
Magnolia Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Hard to imagine these little birds fly all the way to the West Indies for the winter, I find it amazing. Generally to search for bugs on the edge of forests like this like one was, he was very busy and really didn’t hardly give me a glance.
Yellow-throated Vireo #168
I was just looking this one up, futile, until a friend named it for me. I only saw it for a second or two, long enough for a couple of photos and it was gone. iBird fun facts: This little bird is on the decline due to spraying of trees with toxic chemicals where they forage for food, mainly insects. This is an old one for the bird books first described in 1808 by Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot, a French ornithologist.
Black-throated Blue Warbler
I was delighted to find this bird. Just when I was thinking “wouldn’t it be cool to find a Black Throated Blue” there is was right in front of me. Click, click, click, click. A very approachable bird once found.
