It's been a great day for backyard birding -- cool and slightly drizzly, with no breeze at all. Regular species visiting include goldfinches (at the thistle feeder), black-chinned hummingbirds (on the fuschia), and black phoebes and common bushtits (generally kicking around). Migrants include yellow-rumped warblers, downy woodpeckers, and northern flickers, which Steve says are probably coming down from the foothills as we don't often see them in our oak-less yard. Now and again a Cooper's hawk visits -- lunches on the goldfinches, I confess -- but we haven't seen him for a while. We love fall!