Was in Santa Fe last week and where i was staying had three bird feeders hanging and they were heavily used. So i sat out back with my camera and big lens and took a few photos of them.
Western bluebirds which are quite different from the Northern Bluebirds around here:
The Western Bluebirds resemble swallows, a little bit, particularly the male above. That is a couple above with the female on the right and the male on the left - they were around the suet (which is what they are eating) everyday.
Quail ... rather different looking from the ones that lived at GGF which had the strange looking topknot. I wasn't very happy with the image but it was the best shot. The is: The scaled quail (Callipepla squamata), also commonly called blue quail or cottontop
from Wikipedia. Cottontop seems most appropiate.
Curve-Billed Thrasher ... a rather intense looking bird which did not hang about as the other birds did and i was lucky to get this shot.
And one of my favorite birds whose name i have to look up ...
White Crown Sparrow, i think.
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