A Downy Woodpecker visited this feeder in the backyard. I was able to capture it before it flew to a safe spot with its tidbit.
Tag: Project FeederWatch
Visitors
Project FeederWatch, a citizen sciemce program bewgan last weekend. This will be my tenth season of contributing observations.
These American Goldfinches were among my visitors.
And now you don’t
It flew away an instant before I tripped the shutter for this image. The female House Finch remained.
Now you see him
I participate in Project FeederWatch. It’s a citizen science project which involves counting the birds at my bird feeders. During our recent extreme cold weather visitation dramatically increased. I photographed this Northern Cardinal through the living room window and screen so it’s a little fuzzy.
Sharing
A Northern Cardinal and female House Finch share space at the dinner table.
Junco
In the middle of a snowfield, this Dark-eyed Junco finds the bit of suet I dropped.
Hairy woodpecker
This fellow (or lady, the sexes are alike in appearance) visited the suet feeder. It’s been a regular, perhaps daily, visitor during the past few weeks and has been included in many of my Project FeederWatch tallies.
Watching like a hawk
I heard a quiet cry from overhead.After a moment I triangulated it to our Manitoba maple, then to this hawk. I am nearly certain it was a Sharp-shinned Hawk because I have seen one before,and because we are more likely to see this species than a Cooper’s Hawk in this habitat. It flew on after a few moments. The hawk will likely return because of my participation in Project FeederWatch. Feeding songbirds means setting the table for their predators. I don’t enjoy that but it is an inevitable result, and it is a part of life.
previouslytexan 