it was a beautiful sunny, unseasonably warm day and the first day we'd managed to walk down to the location of the resident Bald Eagle pair nest since that wind storm we'd had a few weeks ago....
and here's what we found....a brand new nest is under construction...you can just make out the white head of the one in the nest....this looks like a rather precarious position for a nest the size of an eagle nest....but necessary.....
this was the location of their previous nest (took this photo on November 4th last year)....that whole tree top came down during the wind storm so that nest is no more.
here she is in the new one under construction. Eagles do work on their nest in November and December, then often move on in search of food before returning, usually in March.
There wasn't a lot of bird life around, probably due to the wind....not conducive to see seeing small birds....
there was one Northwestern Crow...
and the male Pileated Woodpecker.
Should show the water levels....
which are high, but dropping again, but means there was very little in the way of waterfowl out on the bay.
Now for some more feeder birds....lets consider the woodpecker family....in some areas almost all of the woodpeckers, Pileated, Hairy and Downy will come to feeders...and very occasionally they might in our area too, but the only one that comes regularly is...
the Northern Flicker....like this guy who was in my yard yesterday. Peanuts in a peanut feeder like this one, or suet, are the favorites of these guys although I have had them come to just about any feeder and type of food.
another feeder bird is the cheerful little Chickadee....this one is a Chestnut backed (see the brown colour on the back), the Black-capped is another regular visitor in this area. They love Black-oil sunflower seeds....well any sort of sunflower seed for that matter, also peanuts from a peanut feeder and suet.
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