mayhewblog.com » american http://www.mayhewblog.com An Englishman in New England Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:27:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 Birds in the Rain http://www.mayhewblog.com/2011/05/16/birds-in-the-rain/ http://www.mayhewblog.com/2011/05/16/birds-in-the-rain/#comments Mon, 16 May 2011 14:29:02 +0000 Jonathan http://www.mayhewblog.com/?p=1396 Usually I take pictures of birds on our feeder from the basement door but at the weekend I got within about 15 feet of the feeder and was able to get some better closeups than usual. It was raining heavily all day so I didn’t stick around long to take many pictures.

Here are some American Goldfinches and Black-capped Chickadees.

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The American Robin is not as cute as it’s European counterpart and is actually a member of the thrush family. The two types of robin are not closely related.

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