Birding

#577

Cool!

RTH10260 · #578

#579

Cool!

RTH10260 · #580

#581

Looks absolutely prehistoric.

dan1100 · #582

Eagle picture from behind the wheel with my phone, no cropping.

If I'd had a dashcam I'd have gotten a 5 second video of it coming straight at me weaving through the wires like they were nothing. .

#583

Cool.

#584

That's how they get electrocuted.

#585

I just saw a downey woodpecker on top of the bird feeder outside my kitchen window. I haven't seen one of them in a long time!

#586

MsDaisy 2 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2024 9:38 am I just saw a downey woodpecker on top of the bird feeder outside my kitchen window. I haven't seen one of them in a long time!

Annrc · #587

Love seeing them.

#588

It's been a while since I posted anything, so here's a goldfinch in the winter wear.

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#589

jcolvin2 · #590

MsDaisy 2 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2024 9:38 am I just saw a downey woodpecker on top of the bird feeder outside my kitchen window. I haven't seen one of them in a long time!

We have a downey and a pair of flickers. They are big users of our suet feeder, especially when the temperature is 18F outside.

Chilidog · #591

I just added a medium size hopper feeder right out my kitchen window.
This is in vadfition to a suet feeder, a Tube feeder, and a Thistle seed feeder

We've had some major vstorms last two days,
But I've been getting Downey woodpeckers
Hairy woodpeckers.
The ocaisional red belly
Various sparrows, cardinals and a rare one for my specific location... A black capped chickadee (they are prolific in this area, but they only show up at my feeders once in a while)

And starlings

Flying English pigs.

Chilidog · #592

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#593

Chilidog wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 2:19 pm I just added a medium size hopper feeder right out my kitchen window.
This is in vadfition to a suet feeder, a Tube feeder, and a Thistle seed feeder

We've had some major vstorms last two days,
But I've been getting Downey woodpeckers
Hairy woodpeckers.
The ocaisional red belly
Various sparrows, cardinals and a rare one for my specific location... A black capped chickadee (they are prolific in this area, but they only show up at my feeders once in a while)

And starlings
Flying English pigs.

Add house sparrows to the flying English pigs. Since I finally put the feeder back out, they have not come in as the ginormous gang like earlier. I figured it would help to wait until the small trees in front of the neighbor's house lost leaves so they would nest further away.

I am jealous of the hairy woodpecker.

I have only seen a hairy woodpecker up here once, not at the feeder. On a walk to a rehearsal, I caught a call that was different than one I am used to hearing and went to check it out. They are pretty rare up here so I was happy to notice it but it was too high for a phone camera so no proof.

We do get many downy woodpeckers, which I have posted pictures of here. One day (sorry if this is a repost), I was sitting and working with closed windows and heard a hammering noise from the backyard.

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Just came across this, that was taken from my kitchen window last winter, or maybe winter before. The older I get the more I suffer from CRS, "Can't Remember Shit"

Annrc · #596

Nice!

#597

MsDaisy 2: The older I get the more I suffer from CRS, "Can't Remember Shit"

You’re okay. It’s *CRLS that is the most serious.
*Can’t Remember Lotsa Shit

#598

Remembering when doth not matter when it is a lovely photo, which it is.

#599

Tiredretiredlawyer wrote: ↑Sun Jan 14, 2024 12:31 pm
You’re okay. It’s *CRLS that is the most serious.
*Can’t Remember Lotsa Shit

#600

The birds this morning were looking a bit pudgy but it is probably not from overeating but by feather fluffing to keep warm (it is -7F).

Here are some of the visitors so far today. Others have been the pig sparrows, goldfinches, chickadees, and rather flitty red-breasted nuthatch, a few inches from my window but flew off before I could get the camera up.

Interesting adventure trying to get a picture from the angle (through a window 2 stories above the ground). You can see why junkos, doves, cardinals, and squirrels love hanging out under the feeder. The other birds leave quite a mess.

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Some others partaking of the MLK day breakfast special

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