He looks so handsome and regal… until he gets caught in mid chew! :-D

He looks so handsome and regal… until he gets caught in mid chew! :-D




You can tell it’s starting to get chilly, when the chickadees start to puff out their feathers more!

Black capped chickadee, in a lilac bush.


We got a brief visit from an adult male Common Grackle.
Their faces look so angry! :-D
It may be hard to tell a downy from a hairy woodpecker, but there is no mistaking these guys!

It’s a fairly rare treat for a pileated woodpecker to come visit. Not only do they have a very distinctive red head, but they are much larger than our usual visitors. At one point, I could see him tearing pieces of this tree’s bark off and tossing it down to the ground! I don’t think I’ve ever seen a woodpecker do that before!
A Hairy Woodpecker, climbing up the support post of our bird feeder stand.

These are another bird we rarely saw last year, but now see regularly.
