Our junco

As much as this may look like a single picture of two birds, it is two
pictures of one bird, taken a couple of seconds apart. On the right,
the mother had just arrived and was checking out her surroundings.
She then hopped into the nest she and her partner built two weeks ago.
Every morning for four mornings there was another egg but they stopt
at four. Whew.

Their nest has made watering the hanging pot (of bacopa and begonia)
more difficult than it would otherwise be. But we're trying to help
out the young family. Today about two dozen blue jays and starlings
came into the garden, en masse and excited, gorging on the moths and
worms in the trees. One of the jays seemed especially curious about
the pot. We shooed him off.

If you look closely, it is not hard to see the join between the two
pictures. I didn't try to match the details.