Monday, April 15, 2013

4_15_2013 Birds in the Winter that Won't End!

It really is the winter that won't end. We have been vacillating between 70 degree beautiful days and snow storms. Yesterday, it was sunny, windy and 70 degrees. Today it is snowing. We had about 14 to 15" of snow last week. Great to have the moisture, but enough!  The birds have been slow to start migration. Happily, we have lots of beautiful resident birds to watch. The first bird is our resident Sharp Shinned Hawk. He uses the bird feeders like a fast food drive through.  Here is a nice shot Dave got of the moon setting a couple of weeks ago.
  And a photo of the ubiquitous Red-Shafted Northern Flicker. I love these birds.
 A Junco. Some call these Snow Birds for obvious reasons.
 About a week ago, we were thrilled to have flocks of Mountain Bluebirds on our street! They and their relative Thush - Robins - were busy eating berries. Really beautiful!
 Mmmmm. Berry!
A very Audubon-esque photo of an American Robin. Love it!
 Robin foraging in the snow.
 A Mountain Bluebird finds a treasure on the sidwalk!
 It was hard to capture the numbers of bluebirds. It was so cool to watch!
 Mtn Blue Bird. You can see why these birds are favorites of so many people.
 Love love love this Mtn Blue Bird photo!

Gorgeous Mountain Bluebird photo!

Another beautiful Sharp-Shinned Hawk in the back.
 Another gorgeous Flicker.
 Finally, we found this little Red Fox sleeping in our front yard on a recent afternoon. Cute, but poor thing had some mange. Hope he is doing okay.

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1 comment:

nancy said...

I love the bluebird photos, both with the berries and in the snow!