Winter Birds

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Winter Birds

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Hi everyone...

The bird-feeders in our front yard has been busy this winter as the snow has covered most of the ground for the past 5 weeks or so. I put an assortment of images together highlighting some of the visitors. Besides these birds, there are many Chickadees, Mourning Doves, Snow Buntings, Nuthatches and House Sparrows are the most common visitors...I just haven't' had a camera handy for all of them ;)

We also have at least one Eastern Cottontail Rabbit visit the feeder base each morning before sunrise to clean up seed spilled by the Blue Jays. I know one has taken up residence under the one observatory and I have been putting out apples for it the past week and after the deep snow has buried the ground apples under the apple tree it had been digging up.
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The upper row has a pair of pics showing a Red Bellied Woodpecker (first I've seen this species) and a Blue Jay hiding in the branches of the Flowering Crab-apple Tree in the front yard. The middle row shows a variety of poses by one of the many Downy Woodpeckers we have on a daily basis.

The lower low of pictures is a Red Tailed Hawk I caught perched high in a dead Elm Tree on Friday afternoon on my way up the road to the family farm. It was quite content to let me walk up close and snap a few pics.

I hope that you like these pics of my winter visitors!

Brian


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Re: Winter Birds

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Hi Brian,

Excellent images. ;)


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What a beautiful hawk! We have them around here too, but more often see Cooper's hawks.

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Thanks Kevin !!!

I was surprised that it stayed on place while I parked on the roadside and walked up closer to it. I had a similar encounter back in the early summer with a hawk in another Elm Tree on my brothers farm. It let me walk in fairly close, but it cursed me out with each step ;)

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Post by Montana »

Stunning! the red head of the woodpecker is vivid. Now if I was a bird namer I'd call that red-headed :lol: but I guess that name was already taken :)

Terrific set Brian :hamster:

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Thanks Alexandra...I though the same when I checked to ID it. I don't see this bird often at all, but my father has the Red Bellied and Red Headed versions at his feeder.

It looks to be more the body coloring/dark bars as the Northern Flicker which is what I first thought it to be until I got a better look at its head.

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Post by marktownley »

Very nice Brian, those birdies will be glad of the food.


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