Myadestes townsendi

Birds get up with the sunlight, and since it is getting light earlier now in the morning, I have to get up pretty early to see the "interesting" birds. In almost the same pose as a picture I took almost 2 months ago (Jan 10), this Townsend's Solitaire makes an almost daily run to the pond for a drink. He stays for about 30 seconds and then flies off. Most of the time, I can't get a decent picture of him because it's just too dark, and all I get is a motion-blurred image of a gray blob. Today, he (she?) cooperated by holding still in a plane perpendicular to the camera (so he's all in the plane of focus) so that the picture is reasonably sharp.

Once the sun comes up high enough, pretty much all I see each day is a procession of finches, sparrows, and Juncos.