At our kitchen window New Year’s Eve.
Birds
Bluebirds
From the kitchen window December 4th. It’s been years since bluebirds have been a common sight at our house, but I’d had a few possible sightings recently, so I ran for the camera when I saw this opportunity. They didn’t hang around for a second shot, unlike our many squirrels . . .
Still waiting for bluebirds
Wildview camera
Didn’t catch much with the Wildview camera this month, other than myself going to check the camera from time to time. Had been hoping for a fox I’d seen go this way. But just the one squirrel, barely visible, on the small tree at lower right. That’s Sandy’s barred owl nesting box at upper left, still owl-less after all these years.
The 2010 barred owl nesting box
Today’s maintenance report is appended as a comment at the bottom of this page: https://ridout.net/edwin/?page_id=255.
Herring Gull
Rose-breasted grosbeaks
Rose-breasted grosbeaks seen from Dad’s kitchen window on his 95th birthday weekend.
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Will have to keep trying to get a decent shot of the male.
April visit to Export
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Top left is from our little hike at Bushy Run Battlefield. Then going crazy with the zoom lens looking from the corn field bench to the top of the neighbor’s pylon. Row two: It’s years since corn grew in the corn field; as we sat on the bench there waiting for the sunset (looking downhill towards the gooseberries), dozens of these unknown bushes were almost blazing, covered in little tiny white flowers. The turkeys and the Baltimore oriole rufous-sided towhee (thanks Nick!), both from inside the kitchen, were not keen to wait for the camera to be ready. That’s the red-bellied woodpecker on the tree near the feeder, and a remarkably tame baby squirrel under the feeder.
Nuthatch
Icicles
The slate-colored junco, currently our most common backyard bird (due to this year’s dramatic reduction of the local goldfinch population). I was actually trying for a shot of the two bluebirds which have been frequenting this feeder over the last few days. We’ve also had a male/female pair of cardinals paying alternate visits, and I was wondering whether the icicles would grow long enough to deter them.