I’ve been just hanging out at home working and gardening. But I’m very entertained by all my birds at the house. I put out lots of water and a variety of food.

Around the fourth of July the calliope and rufous hummingbirds arrived at my house. So for the next few months I will have four varieties to enjoy.

Broad-tailed hummingbird

Rufous hummingbird

Broad-tailed hummingbird

Black-chinned hummingbird

Caliope hummingbird

Lots of babies around home the last couple weeks.
A very good friend of mine built me a bird house a couple years ago. This year I was happy to report that a Bewick Wren nested in it this year.

Bewick Wren

Not long after noticing the nest box was occupied they flew the coop!

Bewick Wren

While walking Scarlett I saw a baby Canyon Towhee baby. I stood at watched it and it hopped over to me out in the street…much to the parents’ distress!

Canyon Towhee

So I picked it up and put it in a safer place…to the parents’ relief! Lol!

Canyon Towhee

Canyon Towhee

I had a ladderback woodpecker bring its young in to feed on the bark butter I put out for them.

Ladderback woodpecker

My spotted towhees had a couple of kids. Took me awhile to recognize what species the juveniles were.

spotted towhee juvenile

spotted towhee

One day I got to go visit Bill and Capulin Springs and spotted a couple of good birds. One of which was a new sighting for me. A Grace’s Warbler.

Black-throated Gray Warbler

Grace's Warbler

Cordilleran Flycatcher

Crest Road with Sandia Ski Area in background

Mule Deer

Bill Spring

I’ve been noticing a few new butterflies around home in the last couple weeks.

Orange Sulphur

I couldn't figure this one out....

Painted lady

American lady

Dainty Sulphur

Reakirt's Blue

Taxiles Skipper

Atlantis Fritillary

Variegated Fritillary

Still not good at identifying butterflies. Will have to research a few of these further.

Scarlett can go hiking now so I should have more interesting posts in the future 🙂

Scarlett loves water! She has discovered that playing with the hose is fun…especially on a hot summer day 🙂

After playing hard she decided decided she needed to sit in the swing with me….less a cushion or two after scrambling up 🙂

Miss Scarlett is growing up quickly. She is learning a lot from Samson. She loves to imitate him.

She’s also learning things from her friend Mya.  The last time they played together Scarlett was focused on herding Mya while Mya focused on her ball. 🙂