Showing posts with label White-throated Sparrow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label White-throated Sparrow. Show all posts

Saturday, February 22, 2020

Saturday's Critters #323

Welcome to Saturday's Critters!


If you love all God's creatures like I do and also like to blog about them and take critter photos this is where you can share your critter post. Link up your post and share your critters, join in with my critter party ! You can share any kind of critters the real ones, pretend ones, statues and paintings, a new or old post!

These are some of my yard birds, I counted last weekend during the Cornell Lab's Great Backyard Bird Count weekend.  The GBBC is an online citizen-science project. Do you watch your backyard birds, have bird feeders set up in your yard and garden? These were all birds just seen from my dining room window. My count varied on Feb 14-17th with 13-15 species of birds seen just from one window. 

 Below some of the birds seen were the Eastern Bluebird, Downy Woodpecker, American Goldfinch, House Finch, Dark-eyed Junco, White-throated Sparrow, Carolina Wren. American Crows were seen flying over the yard. When filling my feeders I heard a Pileated Woodpecker drumming on a tree.


The pretty male Eastern Bluebird.  I was most surprised when 4 Eastern Bluebirds showed up on Feb 15th. They were checking out my birdhouses.


 I am calling this a Downy Woodpecker but it seemed larger in size could it be a Hairy Woodpecker.


 On the feeder below I can see 3 American Goldfinches and one male House Finch.


 A cute American Goldfinch, maybe a female?



the Dark-eyed Junco was sitting on top one our birdhouses. 



Some birds like this White-throated Sparrow likes to sit in our blueberry bushes. 


 I kept my bird count from the comfort of my house, just keeping a count of how many birds from each species was seen at one time. The Dark-eyed Junco took the highest count with 11 Juncos being seen at one time on our deck.





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Saturday, December 14, 2019

Saturday's Critters # 313

Welcome to Saturday's Critters!


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Not my usual kind of critter, but I looked out my kitchen door to see this stray cat sitting at the bottom of our deck steps.  He/she was intently watching the ground, once in awhile it looked ready to pounce on something in the ground, maybe a vole?


 At times, I can look out on my deck and see 6 or more squirrels eating the bird food I put out. The birds do not stand a chance, these piggies eat as much as they can as fast as they can.. 


You can't see me!  A White-throated Sparrow taking a break in our blueberry bush.



The Red-bellied Woodpecker will visit the suet feeder, when nothing else is available.




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Saturday, December 7, 2019

Saturday's Critters # 312

Welcome to Saturday's Critters!


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Happy Birthday Brian, today is my son's 27th birthday. Wow, 27 years have flown by. I wish him a happy life.


Below is a list of my yard birds and a few bird photos. I watched my yard birds for less than an hour on the afternoon of Nov 26th.  It was sunny and around 60°.  A warm day for the end of November.  

I have a Northern Cardinal couple visiting. They are here every day, all day long.  I think this guy should have a headache from banging on my windows off and on all day.


 The female Northern Cardinal is sitting in our Blueberry bush, this bush is protection for all the song birds.  I have a pond/bog nearby along and a wood/brush pile. There are plenty of trees/bushes and native berries in our yard. We are next to miles of forest and have the lake nearby.  The birds have plenty of protection in my yard and a nice habitat. We also have a little black tub pond, three bird baths, one bird bath is heated.




I have been seeing 4-5 Dark-eyed Juncos.  This is a male below, he is a dark slate color. The female looks a little brownish-gray to me. These birds are like the Mourning Doves eating seeds off the ground.  I do have a thistle feeder, 2 sunflower seed feeders and 2 suet feeders.


The House Sparrow is not a usual yard bird for me. I was surprised to see him at one of my bird houses.  The bird house was made by my son when he still lived at home, many years ago.  The bird house is four sided, like an apartment building. I have also recently seen the Chickadee and a Downy Woodpecker entering this bird house.  


Can you find the Carolina Wren? Did you know leaving a pile of leaves on the ground can help the critters? Caterpillars, moths and butterflies can be overwintering under the leaves. 



 The female Downy Woodpecker.  The female Downy  does not have the red spot on it's head.




I also see 4-5, maybe more of the Tufted Titmouse. 


 The Carolina Chickadee often just grabs a seed and leaves, it is hard trying to get a nice photo of the Chickadee. Below the Chickadee is at the feeder and the WB Nuthatch is waiting on the deck rail.




I usually see the White-throated Sparrow early in the morning or later in the afternoon.This sparrow is another bird that usually is seen eating the seed off the ground. 






Top row: White-breasted Nuthatch, Northern Cardinal. Second row: Tufted Titmouse and the House Sparrow. Third row; Dark-eyed Junco and some what hidden Carolina Wren. Bottom row, half hidden Pileated Woodpecker and the Downy Woodpecker. 



Later in the day I was able to catch the Blue Jays on the deck railing, the Red-bellied Woodpecker at the suet feeder and a couple of male House Finches at the sunflower seed feeder. 





My list of bird sightings on the afternoon of Nov 26th.  Some are in photos above or the mosaic. I was not able to get photos of the Mourning Doves, Ruby-crowned Kinglet and the Northern Mockingbird.

1. Northern Cardinal couple
2. Blue Jay, a few
3. Carolina Wren
4. Carolina Chickadee
5. Tufted Titmouse, 4-5
6. Mourning Dove, 2-3
7. Red-bellied Woodpecker, a couple
8. Pileated Woodpecker
9. Downy Woodpecker couple
10. House Sparrow
11. White-breasted Nuthatch, a couple
12. Northern Mockingbird
13. Dark-eyed Junco
14. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
15. White-throated Sparrow
16. House Finch, a couple




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Saturday, November 9, 2019

Saturday's Critters #308

Welcome to Saturday's Critters!


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Lately I have been hearing and seeing the Ruby-crowned Kinglets in my yard. On this day I found one bouncing around a vine wrapped around our wooden swing. They are quick movers and very small. 

These birds have an eye ring but the ring is broken at the top and bottom. 






I found it hard to get a clear shot of this bird, it was moving around too fast. Never staying still.  I think you can see a tiny red dot on the bird's head on the photo below.


This shot shows more of the tail and wing feathers.


This is not the best White-throated Sparrow photo and not my first sighting this year.  It was a rainy morning and the photo was taken from my dining room window. It is just a record of one of my winter yard birds seen recently. 



I do not often keep a list of my yard birds but David and his blog, made me think of keeping a list one day of my yard birds seen in an hour or so. 

Here is my list of 14 bird sightings and 4 birds heard:
Blue Jay
Northern Cardinal
Mourning Doves
White-breasted Nuthatch
Carolina Chickadee
Carolina Wren
Turkey Vultures
Tufted Titmouse
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Downy Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
White-throated Sparrow
House Finch
American Goldfinch


If I count birds heard and not seen, I would include the:
Pine Warbler
Pileated Woodpecker
American Crow
Canada Geese in flight.


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Saturday, May 4, 2019

Saturday's Critters #281

Welcome to Saturday's Critters !


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These are images and birds seen around April 22-26th.  I was still seeing some winter birds like the Dark-eyed Junco and White-throated Sparrows. My spring/summer birds and some migrants are moving through. It is my favorite time of the year for bird watching. 

The Dark-eyed Junco, White-throated Sparrows and even the Red-breasted Nuthatch were still being seen April 22-25th. 



April 24th, the Pine Siskins are still here. I was seeing 6-8 Pine Siskins at my feeders. 



I enjoyed seeing the Pine Siskins fighting for a space at the feeders. I also saw a few American Goldfinches. 


The Blue Jays were enjoying the suet ball feeder. 



April 22nd  my Ruby-throated Hummingbird has a few spot to sit and watch his feeder. 




On April 26th,  saw one lone Rose-breasted Grosbeak at my feeder.  A migrant, I believe this is the female. 




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Saturday, March 30, 2019

Saturday's Critters #276

Welcome to Saturday's Critters !


If you love all God's creatures like I do and also like to blog about them and take critter photos this is where you can share your critter post. Link up your post and share your critters, join in with my critter party ! You can share any kind of critters the real ones, pretend ones, statues and paintings, a new or old post!


I am sharing some more of my yard birds. The White-breasted Nuthatch, Red-breasted Nuthatch, female and male Pine Warblers.




One of a few Pine Siskins that visit my deck and feeders.


White-throated Sparrow perched in a bush, maybe hiding from the hawk.


Male Cardinal is always banging against this window.  


I wanted to share my views from my deck of the Great Blue Heron rookery in our neighborhood. The herons are in the tall pine trees in larger left photo. You can barely see a heron with it's back toward the camera, it is just under the letter "G" were I typed "GB Heron" in the photo. On the two right side photos I was able to zoom in closer to the heron and nest.  


We have had a day of heavy rain and winds, I hope the Great Blue Herons and their nest are doing OK. 



The Pine Warbler is a daily visitor now. 





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Monday, November 5, 2018

Our World, My World


Happy Monday, enjoy your day! Have a great new week!

Tomorrow is Election Day in the USA. If you have not voted already, please go vote!  


I have been enjoying the winter birds showing up in my yard and neighborhood.  The Red-breasted Nuthatch is a favorite, maybe this winter will be an irruption year with all kinds of migrants showing up.  I would be happy to see the Pine Siskins, Evening Grosbeak and maybe even a Redpoll. But for now, I will enjoy what is in my yard and at my feeders.  

One of my winter birds, the White-throated Sparrow.




Some pretty yellow fall colors out our kitchen window.



The Red-breasted Nuthatch is being seen daily now. 


November 2nd we had a clematis bloom.






The Purple Finch, has a pretty raspberry color. 


Some pretty colors on the side yard. The red maples are looking beautiful. 








The female Red-bellied Woodpecker.


The male Cardinal and on the other side is the Red-breasted Nuthatch.


A Chipping Sparrow was still hanging around, they are a summer bird for me.



Thanks for your visit today!  I hope you enjoyed my post and photos.

Thanks to Angie the new host of  Mosaic Monday
Thanks to the hosting team of Our World Tuesday!
I hope to see you there. Thanks to both of the hosts today. Enjoy your day and new week.

As always I thank you for stopping by and as always I appreciate your comments.

Saturday, May 5, 2018

Saturday's Critters # 229

Welcome to Saturday's Critters!


If you love all God's creatures like I do and also like to blog about them and take critter photos this is where you can share your critter post. Link up your post and share your critters, join in with my critter party ! You can share any kind of critters the real ones, pretend ones, statues and paintings, a new or old post!

I maybe away from the internet at this time, I will catch up and visit everyone as soon as I can. Thanks always! 



From around our yard, some daffodils, squirrel at the pond, sparrow at the pond, White-throated Sparrow on the deck.


The squirrels enjoy the bird food.



White-throated Sparrow perched in one of our holly bushes.












I appreciate and thank everyone who links up their post and for all the wonderful comments this past year ! 


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Happy Saturday, enjoy your weekend!

Saturday's Critters #325

Welcome to   Saturday's Critters ! If you love all God's creatures like I do and also like to blog about them and take critter p...