Red-bellied Woodpecker | the Intown Hawk

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

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

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

October’s journal is in two parts: photos from the neighborhood, followed by photos of wildlife from Jekyll just after hurricane Matthew.

We’ve been seeing Monarchs in our yard all month. One stayed and visited flowers for most of one afternoon. This Monarch was so pristine we speculated that perhaps it had just morphed out. There were many Monarchs on Jekyll as well, which was most encouraging.

Monarch butterfly on Georgia Aster

Red-bellied Woodpecker

Eastern Bluebird

Brown-headed Nuthatch

Brown Thrasher

Tufted Timouse

We arrived on Jekyll on October 12, two days after the island was re-opened and five days after hurricane Matthew hit. While the island sustained a fair amount of damage, things were in better shape than we had feared. And we were encouraged that wildlife seemed to have made it through. Also, very glad to see that the magnificent Live Oak in Brunswick known as Lover’s Oak, which is said to be over 900 years old, made it through as well.