Bird Houses and Birds

Yesterday, we were working in the vineyard, using our automated weeder and our friend came to pick up our pipe bender.
He went to his vehicle and brought out these bird houses! We have many bluebirds that hang around the vineyard. My husband and I always talk about putting up bird houses, but in the crush of vineyard activities, it is difficult to find the time. So, when our friend brought these houses, he unknowingly made one of our dreams come true.
There are many other types of birds that we see and on our way out of the property we saw these two hawks. Of course, they saw us and flew away, but not before we were able to get some blurry photos. We think these are red tail hawks.

Lately, we have been seeing this bird that likes to perch on one of the dead branches. We can see this bird every time we make it down to the south end of the field on our tractor. My husband has taken to wearing our camera while on the tractor in hopes of catching a good shot of this little taunter. We were able to get a somewhat decent shot of it when we came back from lunch and found it perched on a post in our garden. Being in our truck fooled this bird and we learned from the Internet that it is a female American kestrel. There are all kinds of creatures that inhabit the land and we feel fortunate when we are able to see some of them, such as these beautiful birds.