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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 Shots of October ’24

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Rose-breasted Grosbeak (female). An unusual visitor to my backyard as they only pass through in the spring and fall. I saw a juvenile male the next day.

Yellow-billed Cuckoo

Red-headed Woodpecker (juvenile)

Red-bellied Woodpecker (looks like he’s holding a Chee-to, but I suppose it’s not).

Wood Ducks (female)

Pine Warbler

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Northern Flicker

Red-Shouldered Hawk

Red-Headed Woodpecker

Northern Mockingbird

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (juvenile)

Blue Jay

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Cedar Waxwing

Black-throated Blue Warbler

Monarch Butterfly

“I exalt You, my God the King, and praise your name forever and ever.” Psalm 145:1

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

Favorite Bird Pics of February ’24

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Pair of Wood Ducks checking out a potential nesting box

Brown-headed Nuthatch working on a new home

Great Blue Herons and Mallards Ducks–I think these mallards hired the herons as sentinels. The herons never moved the whole two hours I was there while the mallards slept or paddled around.

Hermit Thrush–I’ve seen and heard these birds quite a bit this winter. They will migrate north in the spring, so listen for them while you can.

Belted kingfisher (female)

Golden-crowned Kinglet–These little guys spend their summers nesting and breeding the high elevation spruce-fir forests of Appalachian North Carolina. They grace us here in the Piedmont with their presence during the winter months.

Red-shouldered Hawks–He brought her a snake but she didn’t seem interested.

Eastern Bluebird (male)

Pileated Woodpecker

Cedar Waxwing

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

Red-headed Woodpecker

Pine Warbler

“Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your Heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?” (Jesus; Matthew 6:26)

Bird Pictures January ’24

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Pine Warbler

Golden-crowned Kinglet

Great Blue Heron

Tufted Titmouse

Ruby-crowned kinglet

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Hooded Mergansers

Pair of Hooded Mergansers

Goldfinch

Hermit Thrush

Blue-headed Vireo

Double-crested Cormorant

White-breasted Nuthatch

Brown Creeper

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

Red-bellied Woodpecker (male)

Downy Woodpecker (male)

The earth is the LORD’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein. Psalm 24:1

Birds of December ’23

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Blue-headed Vireo (took this in November, but overlooked it and I don’t get many pictures of this one).

Red-headed Woodpecker

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

Carolina Wren

Northern Flicker (male)

Red-headed Woodpecker (juvenile)

Red-shouldered Hawk

Hairy Woodpecker

Northern Flicker (female) Can you tell I like woodpeckers?

Golden-crowned Kinglet

Dark-eyed Junco

Eastern Bluebird (male)

Belted Kingfisher

White-throated Sparrow

Great Blue Heron

Red-tailed Hawk

River Otter (not a bird, obviously; but I enjoyed seeing them).

Happy New Year!

Birds Photos of November ’22

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“Few forms of life appeal so strongly to the aesthetic sense. They are beautiful; they arouse curiousity; their elusiveness piques the imagination; and by constantly presenting new aspects they escape becoming commonplace.” Percy Taverner (Canadian ornithologist) in a letter written to Louise de Kiriline Lawrence.

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

White-breasted Nuthatch

Red-shouldered Hawk

Hermit Thrush

Northern Mockingbird

Myrtle Warbler

Eastern Phoebe

Cedar Waxwing

Myrtle (yellow-rumped) warbler

Northern Flicker

Blue Jay

Quote taken from Woman Watching: Louise de Kiriline Lawrence and the Songbirds of Pimisi Bay by Merilyn Simonds; ECW Press 2022

Birds in October ’22 Part 2

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Sord of Mallards

Myrtle Warbler

Red-bellied Woodpecker
Osprey

Osprey going for a fish

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

Tufted Titmouse

Eastern Phoebe

Red-headed Woodpecker

White-throated Sparrow

Red-shouldered Hawk

O LORD, how many and varied are Your works! In wisdom You have made them all; The earth is full of Your riches and Your creatures. Psalm104:24 (AMP)