Black-capped Chickadees are another one of those overachiever birds. They work hard for their food and energy. I’ve always like this picture of a Chickadee neck deep in the squirrel-resistant sunflower seed feeder searching for its next meal.
They take one seed at a time and fly to a perch to peck out the meat of the seed, before flying back and repeating, over and over. They have to do this a lot to keep their oversized body energized!
Was on Lake Ovid today fishing, and watching a juvenile Great Blue Heron fishing up a storm on the humps. It was standing in deep water almost swimming, and every once in awhile would dart its head and snap up another small bluegill!
Well, I was just saying my Hummingbirds are not gone yet but here it has now been almost 4 days without seeing one little hummer out back at any of the feeders.
We seem to get this every fall – scruffy, balding looking Blue Jays that I assume are molting as the reason their head looks bald without much of a crest.
I keep watching the vast array of House Finches looking for a Purple Finch among them to no avail so far. But some of the male House Finches are somewhat beautiful though common as House Sparrows
The Carolina Wren is one of my favorite backyard birds. Most days I walk out back and hear the overly loud call of this small but powerful bird, whether it is singing, cheering or ditting away, looking for love, and other Carolina Wrens!
We do have patches of woods nearby and our back yard is fairly large by urban standards (about 1/2 an acre), but Pileated woodpeckers are very large birds that seem to prefer more wooded, less urban areas.