From the sunflowers...

I just have to show you these...there were several of the bumblebees and none were ever completely still....and most were rushing from sunflower to sunflower as if they were in a race for their life....
I like the way this one looks beside the bird feeder...most of the sunflowers come to right below the bird feeders. (I had Roger make the hanger for the bird feeders and he made it extra tall till the feeders would be out of reach of jumping cats.)
When I was taking pictures of the bumblebees and sunflowers, I noticed this seed that had been caught in the sunflower's limbs...

Well, that reminded me of working at the orchard. I think I have told this before, but not sure. Forgive me if it is a repeat. Anyway, we had over 20 varieties of apples at that small orchard. And I was always in on all the picking...very seldom did a variety get totally picked by anyone else. So, I am speaking from a lot of experience.

Fuji apples were some of the later varieties to be picked...and the Fuji variety we had had real long stems. So, I always had a pair of clippers and as I picked each apple I had to cut the stem shorter...or else when they were being washed and bagged, the stems would poke holes in the other apples.

I cannot tell you how many sunflower seeds I found hidden down in around the stem! It was not hulls, but whole seeds. Another example of birds hiding food. There is no other explanation for it. There were no sunflowers near, other than what the owners put in bird feeders up by the house....and these would be up in apples in the top of trees. And Fujis were the only apples they hid them in...at least that is all I ever seen. And I think I would have noticed if they had been in others.

After the screen is gone....

I want to remind you that all of these can be enlarged by clicking on them.

I did take the shot above yesterday evening....but the rest of these are from today.
I cannot help but show a couple more of the goldfinches....this one above is no more than a yard away from me....just right outside my window.
Can you spot the one above...it blends right in...
This cardinal is looking rough....there is one that comes occasionally that is beautiful, but I never seem to be there when he is.

Old Blue was there several times today, but he moves around a lot...he is very hard to capture.

I so wish I had taken this screen out a long time ago...well, maybe not. I just want to sit there with camera near at hand.

Goldfinches

This afternoon, I came in here to see if I had any email...and there not over two feet from my computer were these goldfinches...and wonder of wonder they were so engrossed in what they were doing that I sat here and took at least a couple dozen photos...none of which were that good.
I have thought about taking a screen out this window forever but had never done it. After I saw the shots I took that should have had some wonderful captures, I had Roger take it out for me. It is normally a job I could have did by myself, but still not quite capable with my shoulder.
I had to use Photoshop Elements to get these to look even as good as they do. After we took the screen out, they did not come again....but tomorrow is another day.