Today was just a really nice day. A treat to get up to sunshine and it didn’t take long to hear a Tree Swallow chattering over head. As we headed out for our walk there was a lot of territorial drumming going on. Some people can tell what species of woodpecker it is just by the drumming pattern – I’m not one of those people. All I know is it was very rapid fire.
Some of the Red-wing Blackbirds were doing their territorial staking out too – managed to get this guy with his red patches flashing….
spotted the young Great Blue Heron down there ….
I’m not sure just what he is finding in this area – something very tiny here…
and a bit bigger here – obviously there is a good supply of what ever it is because he has been feeding in this spot quite often lately.
American Robins have now become permanent fixtures….I was hoping that the Tree Swallows that were flying around would start fixating on the nesting boxes so I could get a picture of them, but they aren’t quite ready to do that yet.
back at the other end there was one pair of Canada Geese and…
I noticed 4 ducks that were behaving a little differently from the normal suspects – and sure enough – there were 4 Northern Pintail drakes…one of them in the top of this picture – notice too that one of the geese appears to have some white at the base of the bill – I’m going to have to watch for that – it will make it easier to keep track of which pair is which.
numbers of Dark-eyed Junco are really increasing…I got this picture this afternoon. We unfortunately had to cut down a very large broad leaf maple tree and the wood is piled up waiting to be moved – the birds are loving the wood pile and it is making for great photo ops!
lastly…also taken at home….the numbers of Purple Finch have really increased with the sunny weather….here 3 males are at the feeder. I forgot to mention yesterday that I had seen a Chipmunk….maybe it will find the wood pile and I’ll be able to get pictures of him one day. Still waiting for a hummingbird!
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