Backyard Birds

We’ve had many visitors to our feeders in our backyard.  We like seeing the different birds and looking them up in our “Birds of the Dakotas” field guide.  We’ve put some feeders in the tress in the thicket in our back field, but unfortunately when the wind whips around at 20+mph we lose a lot of food. 

Not too many come on our back deck, but when they do we try to get their picture without startling them.  We have seen more than we have been able to snap photos of.  One that I have seen quite frequently flying around is the barn swallow and it is so neat to see flying around with it’s forked tail, but unfortunately I haven’t been able to catch it on film.  We also see a lot of red-winged black birds, meadowlarks, and black-billed magpies. 

Here’s a few snapshots of those we have been able to get . . .