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Favorite Bird Pics of March ’25

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“In order to see birds, it is necessary to become a part of the silence.” -Robert Lynd

White-breasted Nuthatches

Cedar Waxwing

Red-Shouldered Hawk

Pileated Woodpecker

Wood Duck (male)

Blue-winged Teal (male)

Barred Owl (napping in the sun)

Hairy Woodpecker

Tree Swallows

Northern Roughwing Swallow

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

Eastern Bluebirds–Not sure if the one on the right is making an offering or just showing off.

Hermit Thrush

Goldfinches

Barred Owl (different one)

“Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abides forever.” Psalm 125:1

Favorite Bird Pics from February ’25

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“Use your eyes. Use them and have faith in them. Use your eyes and trust them. And go out and listen to the birds. Oh, if we would listen more often to the singing of the birds!” H.R. Sass, On the Wings of a Bird 1928

Red-headed Woodpecker

Golden-crowned Kinglet

Carolina Wren

Tufted Titmouse

White-throated Sparrow

Brown Creeper

Eastern Painted Turtle (Yes, this is a reptile, but you don’t see them out sunning in February very often).

Eastern Bluebird

Dark-eyed Junco

Brown-headed Cowbird

Our snowy morning brought many birds to the feeders. They didn’t all like to share as you can see by this sparrow’s greeting to the bluebird.

Goldfinches and brown-headed nuthatch

Pair of Barred Owls high in a pine tree.

Cedar Waxwing

Chipping Sparrow

“I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Your works are wonderful, I know that full well.” Psalm 119:14

Favorite Bird Pics of December ’24

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Northern Flicker

Pileated Woodpecker

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

Hooded Merganser

Northern Cardinal

Barred Owl (napping in a pine tree)

Ruby-crowned Kinglet

Brown Creeper

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker showing off his handiwork. These woodpeckers always make rows of small holes like this.

The backs of two Barred Owls. I know this doesn’t look like much, but seeing these two snuggled up together lets me know mating season has begun.

Great White Egret playing hide and seek with three mallards

Blue Jay

One of these is not like the other!

“He counts the number of the stars; He calls them all by their names. . . .He gives to the beast its food, and to the young ravens that for which they cry.” Psalm 147:4 & 9.

“Hallelujah to him who both feeds the ravens and rules the stars! What a God you are, O Jehovah!” Charles Spurgeon

Favorite Bird Pics June ’24

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“And here is where nature mocks you absolutely. Birds don’t work on your schedule. They don’t care an iota for your plans or desires. They ridicule your fantasy that you are in control of what it is you see. They appear when they want to and disappear accordingly.” Julia Zarankin in Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder

Baby Barred Owls

Daddy Downy Woodpecker feeding baby

Eastern Kingbird

Belted Kingfisher

Summer Tanager (male)

Hairy Woodpecker

Barred Owl

Green Heron

Goldfinch pair

Goldfinch (female)

Orchard Oriole (young male)

Summer Tanager (female)

Indigo Bunting

Eastern Wood-Pewee

Prothonotary Warbler (belting it out)

Prothonotary Warbler (with dinner)

Killdeer

Hairy Woodpecker (male)

Red-bellied Woodpecker (juvenile)

Ruby-throated Hummingbird at Mimosa Tree

Great Blue Heron

Red-Headed Woodpecker

Young Wood Duck

Mother Wood Duck with ducklings

Wood Duck duckling

Favorite Bird Shots of April ’24

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Pileated Woodpecker

Wood Duck ducklings

Ducklings and Otter

Wood Duck pair

Red-winged Blackbird

White-eyed Vireo

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (male)

Red-headed Woodpecker

Great Blue Heron (notice the fishing line around his legs)

Solitary Sandpiper

Red-shouldered Hawk on nest (I paid for this shot. When I turned my back, she dive-bombed me and hit me on the top of the head. I thought a coconut had fallen out of the tree).

Red-tailed Hawk

American Redstart

Mother Mallard and a few of her (at least) 14 ducklings

Prothonotary Warbler

Pine Warbler

Barred Owl Fledgling

Mama Wood Duck plus three

Eastern Kingbird

Favorite Bird Photos from March ’24

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Pied-billed Grebe

Mallard (male)

Pileated Woodpecker

Brown-headed Nuthatch

Wood Duck (male)

Barred Owl (getting sleepy)

Barred Owl–napping in the sun

Eastern Towhee

Belted Kingfisher

Northern Flicker (male)

Juvenile Barred Owl taking a nap

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

Bald Eagle

Wood Ducks. Very cloudy day, so hard to get great pictures of these ducks in a tree. There are two pairs though one of the females has her back to us.

Red-shouldered Hawk

Great Egret

“Every time you feel in God’s creatures something pleasing and attractive, do not let your attention be arrested by them alone, but, passing them by, transfer your thought to God and say: ‘O my God, if Thy creations are so full of beauty, delight and joy, how infinitely more full of beauty, delight and joy art Thou Thyself, Creator of all!’ Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain