Feathered Friday - Some Spring Visitors

I finally got to see some spring visitors in the forest for this #featheredfriday by @melinda010100

The gold crowned kinglets are headed back up to Canada. They are quite small and flittish but I was able to get a couple photos while they hunted for invisible tiny insects on the forest floor.

I had this guy perfectly in my viewfinder but right as I clicked the shot it flipped around showing its back to me instead. They are quite glitchy and move so fast that it seems like they are teleporting, blink and they are gone out of your viewfinder.

I kept an eye out for wild chives that grow at this time. I'm also keeping an eye out for morel mushrooms but they probably won't be growing until later this month. In the meantime I found these wild blue flowers then heard a familiar sound nearby.

A familiar chickadee sound was right by my head on a branch. These guys are just barely larger than the golden crowned kinglets. Fortunately they are much more tame and will sit for shots.

It bounced to a nearby bush with some black mold growing on it. I wonder if its markings mimic these clumps of black mold somehow. Surely the human won't see me behind this thing right?

They aren't that shy at all and I was able to just sit still and let it land for a nice shot. You can get really close to these guys if you just sit still. If I had a hand full of sunflower seeds maybe it would have even landed on my hand to eat.

Tree creepers are also common in spring here. Good luck trying to see them. They kind of inch along up the sides of trees and their feather pattern makes them really camouflage. Also if you try and get a closer shot of them they take off quickly up the tree.

As usual there were robins everywhere looking for worms. This one seems to be getting his breeding feathers in.

I think this one is a female as its breast feathers are a little less bright.

She flew to another branch and I was able to get a closer shot.

That's all for now, thanks for looking :-)