Tag: woodpecker
Bird Feeders: Look Who’s Coming to Dinner
by: Allen Shaw
Birds, birds, birds. They come in all shapes and sizes. They range in type from carnivores to herbivores. Birds have been the stars of their own movies. Birds have taught children the importance of personality over looks. Some are even the leaders of nations. Is it any wonder that bird watching is one [...]
Posted: October 7th, 2009 under Binoculars, Bird Feeder, Bird Feeders, Birder indoors, Birdhouse, Birding at home, Birding indoors, Birds, Feeding, How to, Tips and Hints, Tips for helping birds, Watch birds, Wild Birds, bird, bird food, bird-lovers, bird-watching, birder, birders, birdie, birding, birding from the window, feeders, tips, tit, watch birds indoors, wild bird food.
Tags: Bird Feeders, bird food, bird-watching, birdfeeders, birdfeeding, birdwatcher, birdwatching, feed the birds, feeding birds, hummingbird feeder, peanuts, starlings, titmice, what do birds eat?, what do starlings eat?, what do titmice eat?, what do woodpeckers eat?, woodpecker
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Update to the Great Backyard Bird Count
I watched for an hour and a half and this was my official count:
5 House Finches (2 males, 3 females)
3 Dark-Eyed Juncos
2 Red-Breasted Nuthatches
2 Downy Woodpeckers (One male, one female)
5 Chestnut-backed Chickadees
A dozen or more Black-Capped Chickadees
1 Stellar’s Jay
5 American Robins (1 male, 4 females)
3 dozen or more Mallards
1 – 2 dozen American Crows
4 Song [...]
Posted: February 21st, 2009 under 12th Annual Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC), American Crow, American Robin, Black Capped Chickadee, Blackbird, Chestnut-backed Chickadee, Dark-eyed Junco, Downy Woodpecker, Duck, Feeding, Finches, House Finch, Mallard, Robin, Song Sparrow, Spotted Towhee, Stellar Jay, Stellar's Jay, crow, songbird, sparrow, window, woodpecker.
Tags: american crows, American Robins, Black Capped Chickadee, Chestnut-backed Chickadee, Chickadee, crows, Dark-eye Junco, Dark-eyed Junco, Darkeyed Junco, Downy Woodpecker, Finches, Great Backyard Bird Count, House Finches, Jay, mallards, robins, song sparrows, sparrows, Spotted Towhee, Stellar Jay, Stellar's Jay, woodpecker
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Downy Woodpecker (Picoides pubescens)
We added an arm to the bird feeder on the back porch and then added a suet case. This has attracted a few new birds. We will try to get photographs of them sometime soon. However, one regular visitor now is the downy woodpecker. He hangs out for long periods of time, pecking away at [...]
Posted: February 12th, 2009 under Backyard Feeder, Bird Cam, Bird Feeder, Birds, Downy Woodpecker, Feeding, Picoides pubescens, Pileated Woodpecker, Redmond, Suet Feeder, Surburban, Washington, Washington State, Wetland Mitigation, birdie, birdy.
Tags: backyard birdfeeder, birdfeeder, Downy Woodpecker, feeders, Picoides pubescens, Pileated Woodpecker, porch birdfeeder, Redmond, Suburban, suet, The Wetland Mitigation in Redmond, Washington State, Washington State bird, woodpecker
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Pileated Woodpecker (a bird a day)
Ha-ha-ha-ha-hahahahaha… woody woodpecker was fashioned after today’s bird, the Pileated Woodpecker. He’s sooooo cute. It is about the size of the crow which is actually large for a woodpecker. I wouldn’t have thought they’d be so small really. I don’t know why. Maybe I watched too many cartoons growing up and not enough birds in [...]
Posted: October 7th, 2008 under A Bird A Day, Birds, Pileated Woodpecker, Redmond, Washington State, Wetland Mitigation, birdie, birdy.
Tags: A Bird A Day, bird, bird a day, Birds, daily bird, Pacific Northwest, Pileated Woodpecker, Redmond, The Wetland Mitigation in Redmond, Washington State, woodpecker
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