Birds on the porch

We recently refilled our homemade bird feeder on our porch, at Melinda's insistence. A lot of seeds were spilled all over the porch and in the "garden" area right next to it, and the birds have been eager to come and help themselves. I was able to sit back on the couch and take pictures of them with the optical zoom on my camera- getting too close scares them away.

We had a cute baby bird and his parent come. I didn't even realize it was a baby bird until I saw the parent feeding it! They came at least 5 different times yesterday afternoon.

Here's the baby bird opening his mouth wide, saying "feed me!"
A couple different shots of the baby bird getting fed:

And cute fuzzy baby bird sitting on our brick wall:



We also have a couple cardinals that come to eat the seeds. The males are bright red, and females are a bit duller/browner overall but still have a really bright beak. We also have small pigeons that visit, but I haven't taken pictures of any of them.