Just loving how the colours shine on those feathers.
The females aren’t all shiny, but you can see detail on them, much more easily.
Critter of the Day: iridescent
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Critter of the Day: Good Mourning
We had a new bird show up at our feeding station in May that had us pretty excited. It was clearly a dove, but not one I’d ever seen before.
My daughter did some research and identified it as a mourning dove, and mentioned that we’ve been hearing them many times.
This was when I discovered that a hooting owl sound I remember hearing throughout my childhood growing up here, was not an owl at all, but a mourning dove!
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Critter of the Day: windblown!
Critter of the Day: in the dirt
In reading up about how best to feed birds, and how some types will eat at feeders, others prefer raised platforms, while still others prefer to eat at ground level, we made sure to have all three covered.
I have since discovered something.
It makes no difference. They all eat anywhere.
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Critter of the Day: Golden
It’s interesting how, unlike to many other birds, the female American goldfinches are just a darker gold than the males.
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Critter(s) of the Day: make way!
Critter of the Day: Grosbeaks
What a difference between these male and female rose breasted grosbeaks!
(Click on the images to see them at full size)
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Bonus Critter: road block
I was just heading out to pick up my daughter from work the other day, when I saw an odd shape on the road.
A strange, bowling pin shaped bird.
I slowed down, expecting it to fly away, or at least get off the road.
It didn’t.
I finally came to a full stop, and it just looked at me! LOL
The grouse didn’t start to move off the road until I began to drive around it.
I love those fuzzy legs.
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Critter of the Day: brilliant
Last year, we saw some Baltimore Orioles now and then. Usually, just a flash of brilliant colour, and they were gone.
So we were pretty excited to see them showing up at the bird feeder in May, and being able to finally get some pictures!
They are now regular visitors, and we just love them! What amazing colours!
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Critter of the Day: spot the difference!
Yesterday, I posted a picture of a common grackle. I almost posted it together with this picture, but on closer inspection, I realized this was a different bird!
This is a brown headed cow bird. The body looks a lot like the grackle! The differences are in the beak (which is shorter on the cow bird) and the eye (which is yellow on the grackle).
I’ve never been much of a bird watcher, but I’ve been trying to make sure I accurately identify the birds we get out our window. In the process, I’m discovering that, for a lot of them, it’s really hard to be sure what I’m looking at! Some are so similar, it’s easy to miss the little details that separate them. Usually, I don’t see the differences until I’ve uploaded the pictures and started to process them for here!
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