Thanks guys, yes he's two years older and so am I, SADLY. I'm dying to go back to that Haida Gwaii. It's the most low key natural relaxing place in the world where you never see the police but never feel unsafe. The Haida are proud folk and rightly so.
I couldn't resist posting this shot from this morning. Chaffinches are quite common here but I usually don't get close, and this guy is just so handsome.
I went out on my deck yesterday to make some shots of remaining colored leaves behind the house. I saw a bird sitting on the neighbor's bird feeder, near the artificial bird, so I photographed that: