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At Home, Photos-Birds

~Today’s Feathered Friend-Peek-A-B00

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Great Horned Owl

Peek
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Boo

This beautiful Mom has four babies to feed. What a gorgeous sight, watching this Great Horned Owl with her young. Not the best quality photos, but they give you an idea of the size of the nest, the Mom and one of her babies. Two of the four babies are much larger. I was told that she is a good Mom and is feeding all four well.

A fun morning spent with a friend taking these photos in the beautiful Colorado Rockies!

Getting sleepy
Getting sleepy

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“Can you see how big I am?”

On The Road, Photos-Birds

~Today’s Feathered Friend-Northern BobWhite

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Lake Colorado City State Park, Texas

We were sitting at the dining table in the RV, at Lake Colorado City State Park, drinking hot chocolate. The day was cold, cloudy and very windy keeping up mostly inside. Kloudy alerted us to the fact that something was in the area. Looking out the window we spotted a covey of Northern Bobwhites.

I scrambled to get my camera to take some photos. These are not the best quality shots, but I enjoyed seeing this group.

This is the closest I have ever been to a covey of Northern Bobwhites and the most I have ever seen at one time.

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Northern Bobwhite
Northern Bobwhite

Site 63, Lake Colorado City State Park
Site 63, Lake Colorado City State Park

All alone.
All alone, but not lonely.

We spent two nights at Lake Colorado City State Park, waiting out the snowy weather in Colorado.

Instead of heading to Amarillo and spending our time in a private RV park, we chose to stay another day in this lovely Texas State Park, observing nature without neighbors.

This was our second visit to Lake Colorado City State Park.

 

 

 

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~Today’s Feathered Friend – Eastern Bluebird~

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 The Eastern Bluebird is a Thrush

Eloquent songsters of open marshes and woodlands, the thrushes include many familiar species. With narrow notched bills they feed on insects and fruit.

Eastern Blue Bird
Eastern Blue Bird (male)

Male in breeding plumage
Throat, sides of neck and breast are a chestnut color. Belly white. Males are deep blue above, females grayer.

Eastern Blue Bird in breeding plumage.
Nest in holes in trees and posts, and in nesting boxes.

Bluebird Conservation:

Eastern Bluebird populations increased by almost 2 percent per year between 1966 and 2010, according to the North American Breeding Bird Survey. Partners in Flight estimates the global breeding population at 22 million, with 86 percent spending part of the year in the U.S., 22 percent in Mexico, and 1 percent breeding in Canada.

They rate a 7 out of 20 on the Continental Concern Score and they are not on the 2012 Watch List. Eastern Bluebird populations fell in the early twentieth century as aggressive introduced species such as European Starlings and House Sparrows made available nest holes increasingly difficult for bluebirds to hold on to.

In the 1960s and 1970s establishment of bluebird trails and other nest box campaigns alleviated much of this competition, especially after people began using nest boxes designed to keep out the larger European Starling. Eastern Bluebird numbers have been recovering since.

For more information on this beautiful thrush, please visit this web-site – http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Eastern_Bluebird/id

 ~Sharing with Charlotte at Prairie Birder for Feathers on Friday 

https://prairiebirder.wordpress.com/2015/03/06/feathers-on-friday-139/

~Sharing with Michelle at Rambling Woods for Nature Notes

http://ramblingwoods.com/2015/03/02/nature-notes-302how-do-bumblebees-hibernate/

~Sharing with Eileen at Viewing nature with Eileen

http://viewingnaturewitheileen.blogspot.com/2015/03/saturdays-critters-64.html