Birds Galore

Happened to glance out my window while pouring a cup of coffee this morning.  I have an old apple tree just outside and a bird feeder full of mixed seed hanging in view of the window.  I rarely watch it and infrequently fill it but this morning there were suddenly about forty birds.  Black capped chickadees were eating from the feeder, a whole flock of some sort of roundish black bird with a yellow beak were eating apples from the ground under the tree, five or six robins were perched in the tree, and a young gull was walking around doing something on the ground.  It was just amazing.  Suddenly the gull took off, a few seconds later the whole flock of black birds (not blackbirds) launched into the air, and a few minutes after that the robins decided to go do something more interesting.

Five minutes later, nothing but the chickadees.

Made me realize that I need to remove the kitchen window screens and wash the windows so that I can see these birds better, maybe get some pictures to aid identification.  Does anyone still shoot in film?  I have a fairly expensive camera with big zoom lenses.  Maybe I'll dig it out.