Backyard Birds

Mark (mostly) maintains a suet feeder in our back yard.

It attracts a lot of birds, mostly sparrows, nuthatches, juncos, and scrub jays.  

And crows.  

And squirrels.  

Occasionally we get other visitors--a northern flicker is a seasonal visitor, and the other day I managed to get a so-so photograph of a downy woodpecker.

Photographing birds when they're on the suet block can be a challenge, because the block tends to spin and then the next thing I know the camera's auto-focus has decided to focus on the metal cage the suet is in instead of the bird.