Showing posts with label Dark-eyed Junco. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dark-eyed Junco. Show all posts

Monday, May 4, 2015

Spring Birding - Part 3

Sorry for taking so long. I meant to make this so long ago. I have pictures from almost a month ago.
I can hardly believe how late it is into migration already. In a few days the trees turned green, more warblers will be around, sparrows, waterfowl, shorebirds. So much! I can't believe it! I have finally caught up on organizing my bird photos so I should be able to get a few more posts out quickly.

I have been biking quite a lot the past month, so, with out further ado, my bird photos since near the beginning of April!
Common Grackle

American Robin

Mallards and Killdeer
 Yellowrumps have been around awhile, as well as kinglets. Today we saw our first Palm Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler

Cat at a friends house


Fox Sparrow
 One highlight was a Oregon Junco! They are rare here, but still can be seen. That was a treat!
Dark-eyed Junco "Oregon"

Cooper's Hawk 
And our dog apparently likes the water in the bird bath.
Winzy our dog drinking from the bird bath.
 My brother and sister's violin teacher has a cute little dog that I couldn't leave out.
Puppy dog

Downy Woodpecker
 I also enjoy just photographing things other than birds. Like this moss clump on the forest floor.


After some rainy days we had like fifty robins on our lawn.
American Robins
 Yellowrumps come to our suet sometimes, this is a bright male and a junco.
Yellow-rumped Warbler and Dark-eyed Junco
 There is a nice tree out the back of our road that is quite nice especially at sunset. It is a single tree beside the highway. William named it the Soller-Tree (the name of a hedgehog from the series Redwall) because it is a solitary tree.
The "Soller-Tree"
 We often bike to the Red River floodway, where Hooded Mergansers are quite common.
Hooded Mergansers



Friday, April 3, 2015

More Snow!! (And Birds)

We had quite a bit of snow today, the ground is again covered. In a few days it will melt though. Yesterday there were quite a few birds at the feeders (and there probably will be today also); Purple Finches, Dark-eyed Juncos, Pine Siskin, of course chickadees, Hairy Woodpecker and even an American Tree Sparrow.
Here are some pictures I took over the last couple days. Enjoy!

Common Redpoll
 We discovered a chipmunk sticking around the house (and probably living under the garage) who comes to the bird feeders often. I used our Lone Pine Mammal book to identify it, it was between Least and Eastern Chipmunk. The Least has more stripes on it's face, so this was a Eastern.
Eastern Chipmunk

Eastern Chipmunk

Eastern Chipmunk
 There were many Purple Finches singing in the trees, mostly males actually.
female Purple Finch (male in the background)
 The juncos are here to stay now! There are about twenty maybe coming to our feeders.
Dark-eyed Junco kicking up snow.
 And, one of my favorite right now, the American Tree Sparrow! I love the rufous cap and back.
American Tree Sparrow

American Tree Sparrow

Dark-eyed Junco
 A Hair Woodpecker came momentarily to the tree.
Hairy Woodpecker

Purple Finch

Dark-eyed Junco

Dark-eyed Junco

Black-capped Chickadee
 I was able to get some video of this Purple Finch, the chickadee and juncos.
Purple Finch

Feathers on Friday posts:

Other FoF posts:
Bird Boy
Prairie Birder
The Cats and the Birds