New Neighbors

A darling new couple is moving in next door. And by next door, we mean above the den door. Our daughter, who is visiting from the East Coast, noticed a redheaded bird perched upon the fence. She wondered if he was making use of the birdhouse custom-made by my husband and hoped to catch him in the act. However, he spent most of the day shooing other birds.

She noticed that one brown bird was allowed to freely pass by, toting twine, twigs and moss. When we arrived home from work, she explained her observations and we quickly realized it must be a new bird couple moving in.

We google image searched "red headed California birds" and up came the Red Headed House Finch. Sure enough, that was him!

Phone snapshot of Mr. Red from the kitchen window.

Nest in progress. She even took some
twine left out for typing up vines.