Photo by brichard
Black Phoebes are one of my favorite birds in my beautiful wildlife garden. Being flycatchers, they love loitering around bodies of water and can be found hanging around our pool daily.
Photo by Davefoc
Black Phoebes are one of the three native phoebes here in California. But they’re the only ones that don’t migrate. Which doesn’t bother me a bit.
Chris’s northern California farm is chronicled at A Suburban Farmer
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I love our year-round resident birds, they’re a comfort in the winter when there isn’t anything growing in the garden. To watch them feeding on seedheads and hear them singing is such a sweet reminder that the snow will end and spring will come!
Love the phoebes! They eat bugs by the hundred! They don’t winter here in New England but they are one of the earliest migrants to return in very early spring. We have a nest of phoebes every year on our farm…I love watching the mothers teaching the fledglings how to perch and dive for insects…they’re pretty acrobatic!
There’s no better sign of spring than the raspy “Phoe–bee” call of returning migrants.