I'll try.

The first is a Robin? the second a Chickadee, but I don't know about number three - Cardinal? :)

As best as I can make out I'd say the first is a Robin, second possibly a Chickadee or a Red Winged Blackbird and the third ? still thinking on that one.

Annette

I just checked, and Bird 3 is generally found in the midwest and eastward in the US, and west central Canada. Since that leaves out you westerners I guess it was not a great choice for this trivia question. Sorry.

Here's a big hint, though.

Could this bird have been a favorite of David Austin?

TM

1. Robin
2. definitely chickadee-dee-dee
3. Hmmmm...I know they're around here, but who are they??? Might be a swallow?? Someone with better rose knowledge than I should get the clue!!

Hi All - perking up a little bit more every day. Last week was wild - I am off of the heavy drugs, just taking extra-strength tylenol now. Whew. Still waiting for the morning when I wake up refreshed! I have at least slept well through the last 2 nights!!! Yea!!

Nancy.

Mmmmmmm, D.A. has a 'Canary Bird' maybe a Gold finch for No. 3 We have them here but they don't come into my garden for some reason so don't have much of a chance to hear their song.

Annette

Yes! Annette maybe be right- the third is a finch?

Goldfinch could be right - it does sound like a finch, and I have them around here. Annette - they love thistle seeds and native primrose!!

Nancy.

Nancy, not even thistle seed can lure them into my garden, the closest I've lured them (with thistle seed) is in the hedgerow by our back fence and that was a couple of years ago. We have lots of different birds coming to our feeders but the goldfinch boycott them :(.

Well, it is a member of the finch family, but it's common name doesn't have the word finch in it.

Anyone ... anyone?

TM

Not a wren is it?

This wouldn't post the first time I tried it, so let's see if it works now.

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Nancy - glad to hear your pain level is subsiding. I really had no idea what the recovery from knee replacement was like. It sounds like an ordeal to me!

You all nailed the first two birds, a robin and a chickadee. The third bird was a rose-breasted grosbeak, which is apparently not as common around your houses as it is mine. They are pretty birds and I really enjoy their songs.

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Since the grosbeak wasn't a very fair question, I think you deserve five stars for getting just the first two, so for Schoolhouse, Annette, and Nancy.

TM

I almost said Rose Breasted Grosbeak! but only as a wild guess as I don't recognize its song. Here's a photo of one at my feeder a couple of weeks ago. The last time I saw one was May of 2007, I made a note of it in my Peterson's bird book.

I was raining and I took the shot thru the kitchen window, if you closely you can see just make it out.
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That should read, "IT was raining", not me.

Yes, I have a breeding pair here!! That's why the song was familiar!!! So pretty.

Thanks TM.