As the trees grow in our wilding areas so too do the bird populations.
We are in Illinois, just about 100 miles South of Chicago and many of our birds fly South for the winter.
And now they are coming back. And this tiny brown and white speckly bird, about 4 inches long I think (though he does not stop moving) has decided the glass house has the best food.
He spent all yesterday hunting in there. He never stopped moving about – not once – very difficult to get a shot.
He catches big fat flies on the wing and gobbles them up.
I am going to keep todays post nice and short as the last two days of posts have totally disappeared (something that has never happened before) and I need to get to work finding them.
It takes a good two hours to make a post and that does not include working on the images so losing TWO posts is just no good.
Weather
Always with the weather – even in a short post we need to note the weather.
Stormy
Stormy.
Stormy.
“Nuff said.
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Talk soon
Celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
40 responses to “Do you know what This Bird Is?”
Being a bit of a birder myself..or birdbrain Lol my guess would be a Brown Creeper too. If you don’t have a good bird book, there is a neat App called Who’s Singing (Merlin Bird ID can tell you). Just set it up for North America. I have another one that’s great for ID ing trees too..called Leafsnap. Originally set up by the Smithsonian Institute.
One of my favorite birdbooks in my bookcase is the National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds. Or anything by Sibley.
Looks like a brown creeper in the markings. The beak doesn’t look markedly curved, though. That could be due to angle of the photos. If you look with your eyeballs and can see that the beak is curved downward, it’s a brown creeper.
My daffodils are way behind yours. Just coming up. Chives are also coming, I starting eating them right away. Sometimes they are frozen but still good.