A pine siskin stood in a raised garden, next to an irrigation hose, and picked up bits of non-sprouting grain sprinkled there.

A downy woodpecker perched on a suspended metal cage that contained a block of suet.

A townsend's warbler perched on a lower metal cage, and was about to feed on suet in the upper metal cage.

An American yellow wabler stood on the lower of two green metal cages and looked up at the suet in the upper green metal cage.

An American yellow wabler perched on the vertical edge of a green metal cage. It chirped either to warn other birds away or to attract similar birds.

A ruby-crowned kinglet perched on the leaning edge of the lower of two green cages, and was about to peck at suet. Sadly this bird posed with its butt to the camera.

A townsend's wabler perched on a metal cage and thrust his head inside in order to dine on a block of suet.

A yellow-rumped wabler , in its washed out colors of winter, perched on the edge of a raised garden bed and watched something on the ground below.