While still not common around our feeding station, Baltimore Orioles have become regular visitors. :-)
Critter of the Day: Baltimore Oriole
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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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Critter of the Day: strange bird!
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: are you my mother?
This picture reminds me of the children’s book I used to read to my daughters, long ago, in which a lost little bird kept asking different things if they were its mother.
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Critter of the Day: Grosbeaks
What a difference between these male and female rose breasted grosbeaks!
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