"Western Bluebirds are small thrushes that usually perch upright. They are stocky with thin, straight bills and fairly short tails...
You can also invite bluebirds to a partially wooded yard by putting up nest boxes. Make sure you put up a nest box well before breeding season. Attach a guard to keep predators from raiding eggs and young."
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Many thanks to Ian Kimbrey who has created a Bluebird Trail in California and might even have an upstate New York box next year.

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We had a wonderful time at the Los Angeles Arboretum.
The Munias won the most cooperative bird award.
"Attractive small songbird of grasslands, gardens, fields, and agricultural areas. Native to India and Southeast Asia, with introduced populations scattered elsewhere around the world. "
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"The Orchard Oriole swaps the typical flame-orange of other orioles for a deep, burnished russet. Hopping among riverine shrubs or scattered trees, male Orchard Orioles sing a whistled, chattering song to attract yellow-green females. The smallest of North America’s orioles, it gleans insects from foliage and builds hanging, pouchlike nests during its brief breeding season, and then heads back to Central America for the rest of the year. Orchard Orioles also feed on fruit and nectar in orchards, gardens, and elsewhere."
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"A tiny bird with a big voice, the Canyon Wren sings a gorgeous series of sweet, cascading whistles that echo off the rocky walls of its canyon habitat. Canyon Wrens are incredibly agile birds that hunt for insects mostly among rocks, scaling cliff faces and using their long, slender bills to probe into crevices with surgical precision. They are a rich cinnamon-brown, with a salt-and-pepper pattern on the head and a neat white throat patch." allaboutboids

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He's tiny. He's orange. He's puffed up with pride. It was a thrill to watch this Northern Red Bishop make short flights into tall green grasses to eat the seeds.
The midday light was rough. I do wonder how much detail could be recovered if I shot in RAW. But I putter along using JPEG and my Lightroom 5.
Thank you for having a look.
"Northern Red Bishops are native of central Africa. South of the equator, they are replaced by the aptly named but similarly plumaged Southern Red Bishop. The population in the Los Angeles area probably was a result of some escaped cage birds settling in the areas mentioned above. Males have gorgeously red and black pinata-like feathers while females are drab brown and can easily be mistaken for a sparrow."
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