Sunday, March 7, 2010

Winter 2010 Blizzard Bird Visitors

This winter we have seen so much snow it has been unbelievable!
We had two huge snow storms within a week of each other, dumping at least 2' of snow each.

Right before the first one hit, I made sure to get some suet and seed into the feeders and here are some of the pictures I was able to get while bundled up inside, looking out our kitchen door...

The last of the suet...

Dark Eyed Junco
They will be flying north soon - they love the colder temperatures!

White Throated Sparrow...
One of my favorite little song birds!
According to my Avian Biology Professor (Dr. Roth) at UD, when you hear: "Old Sam Peabody, Peabody, Peabody..." a White Throated Sparrow is near...

One of many Mourning Dove visitors to the ground beneath the feeders...

A Nuthatch... They are so fast: tree to feeder to tree to feeder...

A Tufted Titmouse...
One of our year round residents!

The Female Northern Cardinal - what a natural looking beauty!
One of the prettier species of local female birds in my opinion...

The Male Northern Cardinal.
Taking in the sunlight (which is why the shot is hazy)...

Ah, yes... One of the storms dumping 2' of snow.
And you can see why there is so much tree and structure damage from these storms...
That snow was very wet and heavy! This tree had a few branches break. Not sure how severe quite yet...

One evening (Feb 26) as I was going up to bed, I noticed how bright it was outside. The moon was either full or a day off of being full, and with all the snow - it was quite amazing.

And here is a picture of the snow receding - finally!
Spring is on the horizon...

These next photos are a series I snapped with my iPhone from our kitchen door.
Both of our cats are indoor felines, for many reasons... for their protection as well as for the protection of the birds and other smaller outdoor critters...

Peeves will sit all day and watch the birds...

Coming in for a landing...

Happy to have extra seed close by to throw out the door to them...
Notice Peeves head starting to peek over the bottom of the door...

Oops... they saw her...
Love that the camera was able to catch the birds in flight like this - very cool!

We also have our resident Chickadees, Carolina Wrens, Red Headed Woodpeckers, Downy Woodpeckers, Hairy Woodpeckers, Blue Jays, and little brown Sparrows around.

Recently we have had some Red Winged Black Birds and Common Grackles stop by. And last night as we were getting ready for dinner, a mother White Tailed Deer and her three (not all hers) yearlings stopped by as well to get some seed to eat... Unfortunately one of the yearlings was limping quite bad with one of his back legs, as if he was grazed by a car. Hope the injury heals and we keep seeing all three yearlings this spring...

1 comment:

  1. came to your site from fb birds and bloom. love your bird pictures...we have the same variety here in wv! love it! the moon picture is awesome! i will def check out your etsy!
    peace.

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