September is a Time of Transition

Design - "Happy as a Lark"

Designer - Birds of a Feather

Fabric - 28 count R & R Liberty Gathering Gray

Fibers - GAST - 2 strands over 2 threads

Started - 15 August 2012

Completed - 17 August 2012

I thought I might not see a Western Tanager this year.

 

Thankfully I was rewarded Monday morning.

I got a couple grief looks at a female Western Tanager.

I might get to see a few others as migration begins this month. 

The California Quail do not migrate.

While the American Goldfinches leave my area in mid-October.

They are among the last birds to breed, and their young have now fledged so I have a good group of birds.

Most are rather dull looking - no longer flaunting their bright yellow breeding colors.

This male is molting - pretty scruffy looking.

And Monday was my last sighting of a Black-headed Grosbeak.  They are on their was south.