Weekly What Bird Wednesday

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Last weeks were actually House Sparrows.

Winter Birding

Winter is finally here. We just got a dump of snow a few days ago. Winter birds are settling in, Redpolls, Blue Jays, ravens. I haven't really been birding much in the last while, or making a lot of posts other than Feathers on Friday and Weekly What Birds, so this morning I went out and watched the birds at the feeder. There have been three finch species hanging around, Common Redpolls, American Goldfinches and Pine Siskins. I saw them all today at the feeders.

Chickadees of course are the most common and the boldest as I sat on the deck. They were always flitting back and forth from the feeders, while the redpolls and siskins took a long time for them to gain my trust and start feeding.

Black-capped Chickade

Black-capped Chickadee

 The chickadees hid seeds in the bark of the trees and store them for later.

Black-capped Chickadee

 Eventually the redpolls came warily closer, if I made a move they would fly. After several attempts for the feeder and seeing I wasn't moving a lot, they became comfortable with me and the flock came in.

Common Redpoll

 Last year we scarce had redpolls at all, so it's a treat to have them back.

Common Redpoll getting ready to fly down to the feeder.

 The siskins chorused in the nearby trees but didn't dare to come near.After waiting quite a while and seeing the siskins weren't coming, I started to leave. I waited a moment and came back. Already a whole bunch of sisksin were at the feeder. I cautiously approached and leaned on the deck rail to get closer.

Pine Siskin

Pine Siskin

A Downy Woodpecker came around later on a close branch, and I got a pretty good photo.

Downy Woodpecker

 After being inside a few minutes, my brother said there was a big bird at the feeder. He got a bit of a blurry picture before it flew away. It looked like a Rusty Blackbird. Five minutes later it returned. I was able to get a decent picture of it under a chair.
Quite the bird! It's a lifer for me, and I didn't expect to see it here in the winter, nevermind at our feeder.

Rusty Blackbird

I am planning to make some new posts soon, the final part of the Churchill trip, a post about my field guides, and I should be making others. So stay tuned!

Here's an eBird Checklist.

Feathers on Friday

Here is my Feathers on Friday. This is the original uncropped version of the last W.W.B.W. It was injured and couldn't fly. I don't know what happened to it after, it managed to hop through the bush a bit.

American Robin

Here is Prairie Birder's FoF

Weekly What Bird Wednesday

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Can you guess these bird from last winter?

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The Cats and the Birds and Bridget both got last weeks, American Robin!

Feathers on Friday

A while ago we went to Oak Hammock Marsh to see what we could see. We saw lots of cormorants as well as Snow Geese and quite a few others.
Here is a picture of one of the Snow Geese we saw.

Here are Prairie Birder's posts

Weekly What Bird Wednesday

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Can you guess this cropped picture of a bird?

Neil got last weeks right; American Tree Sparrow.

Weekly What Bird Wednesday

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Last weeks was indeed, as everyone thought, a Bobolink!

Feathers on Friday

Here are the full pictures of the Ring-necked Pheasant from the weekly what bird a week or two ago.

My brother got this fabulous picture

 I got a picture just as it was running away

Ringed-becked Pheasant running

Weekly What Bird Wednesday

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Last weeks was a Ring-necked Pheasant

Feathers on Friday

Here is a Scarlet Tanager from the spring. It was a really exciting bird for me because of it's fantastic color.

Weekly What Bird Wednesday

Sorry I'm late, again, we are always very busy on Wednesday's.

If you would like to join me for my W.W.B.W. leave a guess in the comments below or make your own weekly what bird post.

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Last weeks was Barred Owl!

Feathers on Friday

Here is a oriole we had this spring. We had a whole flock of them and I got some amazing pictures. Click here to see some of the other pictures I  took.

Baltimore Oriole going after grape jelly.

Here's Prairie Birder's FoF posts.

Weekly What Bird Thursday

Sorry I'm late, I was busy yesterday.

If you would like to join me for my W.W.B.W. leave a guess in the comments below or make your own weekly what bird post.

Can you guess this bird from last winter?

Last weeks was fox Sparrow