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Monthly Journal – May, 2017

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May’s journal focuses on activity in and around backyard feeders one afternoon on the north end of the neighborhood.  We were invited over to see Rose-breasted Grosbeaks who had been showing up to recharge on good food in a wonderful wooded setting before continuing on their migration.  For one hour we sat quietly with our friends and watched.  This is some of what we saw.

Northern Cardinal
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Blue Jay
Common Grackle
Downy Woodpecker
Eastern Bluebird
House Finches
House Finches and Northern Cardinal
Mourning Dove
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Rose-breasted Grosbeak and Downy Woodpecker
Two Rose-breasted Grosbeaks

Monthly Journal – January, 2017

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January was an unseasonably warm month.  Lots of bird activity with many of the usual suspects and one unexpected rare appearance by a Wilson’s Warbler (see our recent January 14 post).  In addition to the photos below we had visits from a Great Blue Heron and a Red-tailed Hawk.  The Northern Flickers in the photo below were engaged in a territorial fencing display, which we have seen one other time.

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker – Sphyrapicus varius
Brown Thrasher – Toxostoma rufum
Cedar Waxwings – Bombycilla cedrorum
Brown-headed Nuthatch – Sitta pusilla
Brown-headed Nuthatch – Sitta pusilla
Carolina Wren – Thryothorus ludovicianus
Chipmunk
Eastern Bluebird- Sialia sialis
Eatern Towhee – Pipilo erythrophthalmus
Golden-crowned Kinglet – Regulus
House Finch – Haemorhous mexicanus
Mourning Doves – Zenaida macroura
Northern Cardinal (male) – Cardinalis cardinalis
Northern Cardinal (female) – Cardinalis cardinalis
Northern Flickers – Colaptes auratus
Northern Mockingbird – Mimus polyglottos
Pine Warbler – Setophaga pinus
Red-bellied Woodpecker – Melanerpes carolinus
Red-bellied Woodpecker – Melanerpes carolinus
White-breasted Nuthatch – Sitta carolinensis
Saucer Magnolia
Tufted Titmouse – Baeolophus ridgwayi
Wilson’s Warbler – Cardellina pusilla
American Goldfinch – Spinus tristis
Red-winged Blackbird – Agelaius phoeniceus
Crocus