Three Birds

Today I was lucky enough to capture two birds that I have not seen before.

During lunch today I went out to my favorite park ~ Lone Lane Park. While eating my lunch I spotted the Bluejay directly above me. As I prayed that he won't poop on me, I got a few shots of him. Not usually the side of a Bluejay that is seen or photographed!! After a while I then spotted a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, which is in the upper left photo. This is first time I had ever seen one of these in person ~ very exciting!! He was flying from tree to tree and was not very close to where I was sitting, so I waited (in vain) for him to get closer. In fact, I waited so long that I was late getting back to work! Oh, well!

The small photo in the lower left is of a Northern Bobwhite that R spotted in our front yard. We had no idea what it was as we have never seen one in our area before, let alone in our yard!! I thought at first that it was a quail, but when I looked it up in our bird book we realized that it is a Northern Bobwhite. After feeding in our yard for several minutes it wandered over to our neighbors yard. We haven't seen it again.