Some leftover bird photos from October.
Male and female Downy Woodpeckers.
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Blue Jay
Chickadee
Goldfinch
Tree Sparrow
Peanut Gatherer
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Showing posts with label tuesday around the world. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tuesday around the world. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Monday, November 18, 2013
Two Weeks Of Weather
I'm still down with a respiratory infection. The majority of my days are spent sleeping. I don't have energy to do much. I still manage to snap a photo or two of what is happening outside my window.
This post documents the weird weather we have experienced in my part of Canada, over the past two weeks.
Two weeks ago, our trees were still mainly green.
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| Male Cardinal |
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| Female Cardinal |
A sudden drop in temperature turned the leaves to beautiful golden hues.
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| Dark-eyed Junco |
A further drop in temperature brought snow.
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| Goldfinch |
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| Male Downy Woodpecker |
It's mild again, and we are experiencing severe thunderstorms, and high winds.
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| Black Squirrel (Bandit) |
This little guy seems as confused as the rest of us, but he poses nicely for peanuts!
I'm only posting once this week, and sharing with a variety of memes...
I hope to get around to visit the blogs participating in the above memes,
but please forgive me if I don't.
Cheers!
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Monday, November 11, 2013
Better Than Televsion
I'm laid up with some icky respiratory infection. I'm not one for staying in bed when I am ill, but today I couldn't do much else. This bug has me grounded.
Luckily, I have a huge cedar tree outside my window that is full of activity.
Very entertaining, and much more enjoyable than watching daytime TV.
Chickadee
Male House Finch
House Sparrow
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Juvenile House Finch
Stoney Braveheart dropped by with well wishes,
or maybe he was just looking for the peanuts!
or maybe he was just looking for the peanuts!
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Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Black-Capped Chickadee
There are seven species of chickadee in the world.
Chickadees, along with titmice, belong to the family Paridae.
A group of chickadees can be called a banditry of chickadees.
This collective noun probably refers to the mask-like appearance of chickadee species.
The range of Black-capped Chickadees overlaps with that of Carolina Chickadees.
They look so much alike that even the birds themselves
may have a hard time telling each other apart – they hybridize!
The Black-Capped Chickadee hides seeds and other food items to eat later.
Each item is placed in a different spot and the chickadee
can remember thousands of hiding places.
Every autumn Black-capped Chickadees allow brain neurons containing old information to die, replacing them with new neurons so they can adapt to changes in their social flocks and environment even with their tiny brains.
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Tuesday, October 29, 2013
The Peanut Brigade
At the feeders this week...
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| Red-Breasted Nuthatch |
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| Chickadee |
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| Blue Jay |
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| And, for Tuesday Muse...(because I think he is gazing thoughtfully)...guess who? (Stoney Braveheart) |
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Monday, October 7, 2013
Monday, September 30, 2013
A New Feeder
I haven't had a Blue Jay in my yard since last winter!
Today, I had a couple (as in male and female).
Obviously they like the new feeder!
The female, almost identical to the male in appearance, but smaller in size.
Feed them and they will come!
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Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Finch On The Feeder(s)
This guy seems to think he is a Baltimore Oriole!
But, he's House Finch (Haemorhous mexicanus), a bird in the finch family Fringillidae.
After sampling the grape jelly, he returns to the more familiar fare.
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Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Cardinals Galore!
My yard is filled with Cardinals!
Fledgling
Juvenile male
Adult male
Adult female
A good dad
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Monday, August 5, 2013
Pond Mills/Westminster Ponds
Yesterday we went for a hike...
Over the meadow
Through the woods
To Saunders Pond
There are 6 ponds in a 200 hectares area. The ponds are “kettle lakes” created in this glacial clay area 14,000
years ago by the melting of large blocks of glacial ice.
Pond Mills Environmentally Significant Area (ESA) is a large publicly-owned ESA in London (population 366,151). The ESA is significant for its size and for its great variety of natural habitats within the boundaries of a major urban centre. The site is also designated as a Provincially Significant Wetland.
We live in the Pond Mills subdivision,
the Pond Mills/Westminster ESA is three blocks from our house.
We enjoy visiting "the Ponds" in all seasons.
Beep, our granddaughter.
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