Sun
Feb 17 2008
08:52 pm
By: Andy Axel
Red-bellied woodpecker, Sunday Feb. 17, 2008
The Great Backyard Bird Count was this weekend.
It was a good year at our house.
Species observed after the jump...
Herring gull
Canada goose
Great blue heron
Turkey vulture
Cedar waxwing
Tufted titmouse
Carolina chickadee
Carolina wren
White-breasted nuthatch
Red-tailed hawk
Northern flicker
Downy woodpecker
American crow
European starling
Pileated woodpecker
Red-bellied woodpecker
White-throated sparrow
Cardinal
Goldfinch
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Didn't know the count was
Didn't know the count was today, but I took this one this afternoon...
Great pic, fletch.Guess I
Great pic, fletch.
Great pic, Andy.
Guess I didn't know the count was yesterday either. You're supposed to remind us before the count, not after :)
Sorry, I knew but with
Sorry, I knew but with everything going on I wasn't up to it this year.
Those are great pics.
Fletch: did you have a herring hanging off the front of your lens?
You are on to me, except it
You are on to me, except it was stale crackers.
Heads/Bellies
Sure looks like a red-headed woodpecker instead of a red-bellied woodpecker to this amateur!
Looks like a female Red Bellied..
Starlings have greatly reduced the population of Red Headed woodpeckers. I would really like to see a starling reduction program of some sort.
Red-headed. I still haven't
Red-headed.
I still haven't photographed (or seen) a red-cockaded.
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I skipped this year's count
Our feeders have been taken over by the most hostile mockingbird I have ever encountered. On the flip side this mockingbird has led to some interesting conversations about he how may have evolved. Did he learn all those different bird songs so he can pretend he has friends or it this just a multiple personality disorder?
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