Bird Watching at home today for the Global Big Day Bird Count. I captured a House Wren building a nest. There were three around, two males and one female. We attached a birdhouse on the ham radio antenna.
~The same birds have been hanging out at our feeders – the Northern Flicker, Scrub-Jay, American Robin and a Junco are pictured below. These photos were taken Saturday. What a difference a couple of days make!
There have been three Flickers at the suet feeders every day. For the last three years, a pair of Robins build a nest in the yard; I think this will be year four from the behavior I have seen. I have been putting out mealworms to help them keep up their energy. As you can see in the photo below the male Robin is looking a little scraggly.
I also have White-crowned sparrows, Red-breasted nuthatches, Black-capped Chick-a-dees, Towhees, Red-winged Blackbirds and Osprey (fly-over). I hope to capture photos of these, but they don’t cooperate! 😦
For the last two days, we have received at least 9 inches of snow with temperatures in the teens.
