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A Hermit Thrush dropped by, too.
And a nice portrait...
Meanwhile, this Steller's Jay was watching all the action from a nearby Ponderosa Pine. The Steller's in the interior West have white marks on their forehead, differentiating them from the ones closer to the Pacific coast.
The resident Northern Flicker came down to drink at the pools also, and I later saw him digging in the ground nearby for insects, kicking up a lot of dirt in the process :o) .
As the ground along this part of the access road is damp from the runoff, it's a great place for insects. As I sat in the camp chair, this hummingbird (a Rufous? Not quite sure) came by, picking at no-see-ums on the ground. The light was dim so I wasn't able to "freeze" the wings.
Here's a closeup of the broken water pipe, and two residents I'd see a lot of during the next 2 days, a Western Tanager and Black-Headed Grosbeak.
A White-Breasted Nuthatch was a bit bolder than the Hepatic Tanager.
This is the scene at one of the unsung treasures at Barfoot Park -- and it's created by man, and entirely by accident. Those pools in the access road are the result of a broken, leaky water pipe that's sitting above ground; you can just barely make it out in this photo in the center foreground, looking like a long stick. My campsite was about 50 feet to the right of this scene. When I discovered what a "bird magnet" it was, I plonked my camp chair down and waited for the show.
See photo in original gallery.
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