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| Ruffed Grouse (no it's not a Partridge) |
Red Breasted Nuthatch
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| Enjoys Gray Striped Sunflower seeds and Peanuts |
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| Looks like it got an empty hull |
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| Fat,sassy and full. |
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| Frozen Puddle |
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| with ice crystals forming on twigs |
A Hungry Black Squirrrel
Quite an acrobat
And Charlie the dog aching to play
Next.
Participated in this year's Christmas Bird Count.
I was a member of the "Urban Group"
We traversed the city (small) all morning , 4 of us in my
car, in the all-day rain.
Our mission was among other things, to check Feeders. As
most feeders are located in back yards we needed to slow and or stop and often
needed the aid of binoculars.
As we were aware of how suspicious we might appear, sitting
an searching the property's, out the car windows with binoculars, we always
half expected to hear sirens as well as bird song, in the event some
householder blew the whistle on us. ( I kept the engine running)
Our team's total count was disappointing as the vast
majority of birds (unlike us) had the sense to get in out of the rain. However
other teams fared better as they were covering the rural areas.
Anyway, after lunch a trip to the municipal landfill netted
us, in addition to multiple Gulls, Ravens and Crows, 8 Bald Eagles. 4 each,
mature and immature, all rain soaked and bedraggled.
(Rainy/Misty not best conditions for photography)
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| Meet Soggy |
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| And Miserable |
