It's spring! Although the days vary from wildly wet to drearily gray to stunningly sunny, we are starting to see and hear a lot of bird life. I captured the little hummingbird while walking home from the post office late in the afternoon a couple of days ago. The colors were hard to see, let along capture on camera, as it was a drippy day. This is an Anna's Hummingbird. I did a little research and there are four species of hummingbirds found in the Pacific Northwest: Anna's, Black-chinned, Calliope, and Rufous.Of these four species, only Anna's Hummingbird can be found year round the Puget Sound region of western Washington. We'll have to wait until it gets warmer before we see any of the others.
And a western scrub jay seems to have taken up residence in our back yard! It took us while to identify this bird, as they are not commonly seen in Seattle. He is much bluer than he appears here. All I could get were images of the jay far up in the apple tree. But we've seen it closer, and the colors are blue head, neck, wings, and tail, brownish gray back, white throat, and light gray underparts. It is a relatively big bird, somewhere between a robin and a crow.
In this video, while you can't see it too well, it's distinctive call clearly identifies it as a western scrub jay.
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