Multi-species pics

[DTro]

My parents live near Cook and have, what I call, a bird sanctuary. The following pics were taken within a 10 minute period.

Purple finch or house finch?

4 species in one shot!

Hummingbird

My dad called this a Franklin's squirrel or something like that?

Not sure what this is?

[M.T. Bucket]

If only I could get Evening Grosbeaks at my feeders. My life would be officially complete

Purple Finch, note the extensive red wash extending down the back and sides of the rump.

Your 4 species shot appears to be 3. The brown bird on the top of the feeder is a female Rose-breasted Grosbeak, the mate of the black, white, and red guy to the lower right. There is also an American Goldfinch and what may be a Pine Siskin--I can't really tell, it's kind of blurry on my screen.

The photo below that also has the male and female Rose-breasted Grosbeak overseeing a Hairy Woodpecker.

That is the bluest Blue Jay I've ever seen!

Your squirrel looks like a Franklin's Ground Squirrel.

The bottom photo is the female Rose-breasted Grosbeak again.

Nice shots! Guess I need to bird Cook for a while.