Odds and Ends at home....

I haven't been taking many photos, but emptied the camera and found a few from the feeders.

The Goldfinches look so pretty in the summer and on the yellow flowers they look even better....I think he knows that :-)

I think this is a young Towhee!  Was surprised to see it show up at the "driveway diner" one afternoon.  That long black tail and the wings are the clues to its identity.

A dragonfly that has stationed itself on this dead branch I tied to a pole to make the birds feel more at home.  I see it in this same spot every day.  I think it might be a Slaty Skimmer, but it is rather large.

My raccoons still visit late at night.

Oh, he is just so pretty, I had to post a second shot :-)

A welcome visitor that I haven't seen much of lately....the Red-bellied Woodpecker male.

Another shot of him.

This Downy did not want that little House Sparrow to join him at the suet.  I don't have as many young House Sparrows as last year, but there are several around.

"My turn!"  Chickadee...dee....dee

A young looking Titmouse.  I think I've seen youngsters of most of my regular birds hanging around.  I never figured out what happened with that House Wren nest in the gourd I was watching.  He was taking in food regularly and then suddenly I didn't see him doing it any more.