This is the time of year to visit your local community garden. Flowers are now “going to seed” and vegetables are ready for harvest, which means FOOD FOR BIRDS! Earlier in the summer these gardens don’t have lots of birds as the food factory has not yet started up, but in early Fall … Uff Dah!

I love to visit the community garden at Marymoor Park. The number of birds at this Seattle area park is amazing, and the colors of late blossoming vegetables and flowers is beautiful. Fall migration can make for phenomenal numbers of birds at these green oases. Find your owl local community garden. I also find that the few garden plot owners out tending their plants always enjoy brief conversations, and have a love of birds. Photo Ops of even common birds become dramatic!

Marymoor Park Gardens

Coopers Hawk … amazed that the 50+ crows around left this raptor alone. The hawk was hunting songbirds and rodents.

American Crow and Sunflowers

Annas Hummingbird (the light was not good for flight shots … thus I slowed down the exposure which allows for neat exposures)

Black-Capped Chickadee

Dark-Eyed Junco (Oregon Plumage)

House Finch (female)

Song Sparrow

Spotted Towhee (last image is a juvenile)

White-Crowned Sparrow