A Hairy Woodpecker, climbing up the support post of our bird feeder stand.
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Critter of the Day: checking you out!
Critter of the Day: patriotic colours
Oh, Canada! I snap my beak at thee!
I can’t get over how huge the beaks are on these guys. So much larger than the pine grosbeaks we used to see all the time!
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Critter of the Day: redwing black bird on a spruce
Critter of the Day: chickadee on a lilac branch
Take a closer look at the branch this chickadee is perched on.
This and other more horizontal branches of the lilac tree are worn down like this.
It’s from all the birds pecking the sunflower seeds they hold in their claws, open!
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Critter of the Day: Blue Jay
These guys are still hard to get pictures of. It’s like they know when the camera is focusing on them, and fly off.
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Critter of the Day: Baltimore Oriole
While still not common around our feeding station, Baltimore Orioles have become regular visitors. :-)
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Critter of the Day: iridescent
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.
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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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