The usual crew is still around (minus the Goldfinches — haven’t seen them in quite awhile) but there’s also some changes in the yard. The cardinals are back, I hear them chip chip chipping very early every morning. The house finches (red, top right) have been around more lately after being gone most of the summer. I’ve seen the dark-eyed juncos (bottom left) a few times, but they take off as soon as they see me and don’t come back for a week or more.
Lastly — the wrens. We don’t see them all that much, but I do hear them and they pop up regfularly enough that it seems like they’re sticking around. The other day Emi and I went into the garage and I could hear them so clearly I thought that maybe they had somehow gotten in there. Turns out they’ve made themselves at home in the brush pile and didn’t seem to care at all that we had our faces pushed right up against the garage window to watch them. They’re sort of our favorites.