Tag: Bird of the week
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Monday Portrait+Bird of the Week XXXIII
This is a dark eyed Junko (male) puffed up to stay warm on a cold day. I always leave the flower heads of the echiinacea and rudebeckia (black eyed Susan) to die back to seed heads. Here you can see a junko is pecking at the seed head of a rudebeckia. This is also my…
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Bird of the week XXXI
When I put up a post, few weeks ago, about the White Breasted Nuthatch. IJ Khanewala of “Don’t Hold Your Breath” blog suggested to me that the Nuthatch would be a good candidate for his Bird of the Week. So here it is.
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Barn Swallows: Birds of the week.
This year we had barn swallows nesting above the side entrance to our house. All of my photos had to be taken through the window so they don’t have the best clarity. We watched as the parent birds would swoop in and give the babies something to eat. Barn swallows are insectivores and this year…
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Bird of the Week: red breasted woodpecker.
We put out oranges cut in half for the Baltimore Orioles . But this week I saw a Red Breasted Woodpecker pecking happily at the oranges. The red-bellied woodpecker(Centurus carolinus) gets its name from a red patch on the lower abdomen but this is seldom visible in the field. According to the Audubon Field Guide…
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Bird of the Week: Baltimore Oriole
Until recently the western populations of this bird ( the Bullocks Oriole)were thought to be a separate species for the eastern populations which were called “Baltimore Oriole” When trees were planted on the Great Plains the two forms extened their ranges and met . It was found they interbreed freely and most birds in the…
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Bird of the Week.
I saw Bushboy’s Bird of the Week and was inspired! This heron is standing in the pond at the barn where my horse is living, for the winter, in Wellington Florida. The original inspiration comes from :Don’t Hold your Breath Bird of the Week.