When things get crowded around the bird feeder, there's no air traffic control to keep things orderly. Here, a male house finch ducks and looks rather askance as someone zooms close past him.

Air Traffic Control!

From: [identity profile] maiac.livejournal.com


I'm guessing that's a female house finch behind him.

And that the bird trying to land on top of him is a House Sparrow. Rude, those House Sparrows.

From: [identity profile] sleigh.livejournal.com


Maia -- yep, that's Ms. House Finch behind Mr. House Finch, and that one of the marauding vikings swooping in... :-)

From: [identity profile] martianmooncrab.livejournal.com


when I get a lot of one kind of bird, they seem to have a feeding protocol, and they take turns zooming from fence to pussywillow to feeders.. its quite the thing to watch.
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